STILL GREAT DEMAND FOR WINTER HEATING

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31728, 11 July 1968, Page 10

STILL GREAT DEMAND FOR WINTER HEATING

Since time immemorial, man has been concerned with keeping himself warm; clothes and warmth emitting objects have been his source of comfort in this direction.

Science has provided us with many varieties of heat. We can keep warm by our roaring fire (and the devil take air pollution), we can huddle over our old heaters or we can lounge back in front of our great gleaming new heaters, we can be warmed surreptitiously by central heating or we can be warmed (in some cases) by geo-thermal or solar heating, but the main thing is, that we are warm and comfortable.

New Zealand has had a great deal of adverse weather in the last few months, ranging from cyclonic .storms to snow and hail storms and this has meant there has been a great demand on heating facilities.

We have been forced to seek the shelter of home heating almost every day for the last four months and it seems there will be no variation from this pattern for at least several weeks until cricketing conditions return.

Many home dwellers have changed their forms of heating to a more modern system, many are contemplating such a move. Heat engineering is a highly specialised field and every facet of home heating is well provided for in the commercial world and there is an abundance of help and advice available on how best to heat “the place where we are treated the best and grumble the most.” - We can not exist comfortably unless we are well fed and kept warm.

AIR POLLUTION HAZARD Healing Makes Contribution Apart from Are danger, there are other problems associated with heating, predominant among which la air pollution. Much publicity has been given to this subject by health authorities, industrial chemists and clean air societies. The dangers which exist in air pollution are numerous and the question to be decided by the householder is what his attitude towards the air pollution of his area should | be. Persons in smaller centres and country areas do not have this problem to face, it is unique to city dwellers. Considerable research into providing smokeless solid fuel for an open fire is being undertaken at present and it is hoped that this may produce a successful product which will alleviate the smoke hazard. Home fires can be blamed for only part of air pollution; cars/' factories and other machinery must take a portion of the responsibility. *