TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY LIFE.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15769, 9 December 1916, Page 6

TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY LIFE.

How many city folks have said "I ■would lore to live in the country if it were not tor the nights, or if I could take my city conveniences with me." Nowadays, however, many country homes are as up-to-date in most respects as any in the city, and New Zealand farmers are each year taking more and more pride in making home life attractive. The want of a good artificial light has until recently been the outstanding drawback, smoky keroseno lamps, or an unreliable and dangerous lighting plant, were until recently the only appliances obtainable D 3* the farmer, .or country resident of moderate means, as even a small electric light installation runs 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, arid by the outlay of a few pounds a farmer can now have his home fitted with an incandescent gas-lighting plant «x light superior to coal gas or electric light, and at much less running cost than either. This invenknown as the. "Wizard Gas-light-ing System" has already been installed in nearly two th~usond homes in the Dominion, and ai...:r a severe test the New Zealand Government is installing it in ail 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 .arc patented, and therefore cannot be copied. The plant is constructed on what is known as the "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 mantle* cannot be broken by these pests. It will pay interested people to write t'Pvt- a £ ents 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 G442-8459