KAPUNI GAS "£8l7s To Convert Cooker"

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31124, 29 July 1966, Page 17

KAPUNI GAS "£8l7s To Convert Cooker"

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WELLINGTON, July 28. The conversion of a cooker to use natural gas would cost an average of £8 17s, the chairman of the ” ellington Gas Company, Mr C. H- Benney, said today’. He was commenting on a stata.nent by the Minister of Electricity (Mr Shand) that these conversions might cost

Mr Benney said that the; cost of conversion would de-' pend on the age and type ofj each appliance. Most of the cost would be in new parts. ! The company had a fairly | good idea of the types and! ages of most of the appliances! to which it supplied gas, and, I on overseas experience, a good < estimate of the total cost of * conversion. p “Of course, there would be ' the few exceptions where it J could cost almost as much to convert an old appliance as', buying a new one,” he said. i, Mr Benney said that the j selling price of natural gas' 1 would include a charge en-i abling capital expenditure in-j< volved in introducing their 1 service to be redeemed over]' a number of years. |j But he emphasised that the;s cost of natural gas would still < be much cheaper to the con-'< sumer than coal-manufactured i ga« It