TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY LIFE.
How many city folks have said "I would love to live in the country if it were not for the niglit.s, or if I could take my city conveniences with me." Nowadays, however, many country homes arc as up-to-date in most respects as any in the city, and New Zealand fanners are each year taking more and more pride in making home life attractive.
The want of a pood artificial light has until recently been tlie outstanding drawback, smoky kerosene lamps, or an unreliable and dangerous lighting plant, were until recently the only appliances obtainable by the farmer, or country resident of moderate means, as even a small electric light installation rnns into hundreds of pounds, and costs a great deal in upkeep and repairs. Keeping the young folk on the farm is a problem that has only developed since, electricity and incandescent gas have made the city so alluring'. Two years ago a lighting system for country homes, stores, etc., was introduced in New Zealand that completely does away with this drawback, and by the outlay of a few pounds a farmer can now have his home fitted with an incandescent gas-lighting plant that supplies A light superior to coal gas or electric light, and at much les3 running cost than either. This invention, known as the ""Wizard Gas-light-ing System" has already been installed in nearly two thousand homes in the Dominion, and after a severe test the Now Zealand Government js installing it in all new country post offices, wireless stations, etc., while'the report received from the military authorities, proves that they also have found it satisfactory in every way. ''"Wizard" lamps are patented, and therefore cannot be copied. Tho plant is constructed on what is known as tbo "hollowwire" system. The benzine or petrol from which, the gas _is generated is turned into vapour mixed with air, in the proportion of about 97 per cent, air and 3 per cent, vapour, and burns in an inverted mantle. The "Wizard" is the only lamp that has a cleaning needle, can be lit with a single match, and is absolutely fly and moth proof, so that the mantles cannot be broken by these pests. ,
It will pay interested people to write to tho agents for particulars of the "Wizard" plant before being persuaded by a clever salesman that some other plant is "just as good." Write to Messrs Cuddon and Jameson, 213 Manchester street, for full particulars. 64-12-8459
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15757, 25 November 1916, Page 11
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