WELLINGTON'S INADEQUATE GAS. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir. — Can anything be done to awaken (lie citizens of (ho capital city to the realisation of the poor quality and insufficient pi-PFsuro of gas fui niched by that autocratic body of monopoliftß, the Wellington Gas Company? Is New Zealand, with its boasted coal-bearing areas, reputed to product) pome of the finest (bituminous coal in tho world, unable to supply adequate gas for tho ordinary needs of a. town of sixty thousand eouls? There has been littlo radical improvement in tho plant of tho local company during the last decade, notwithstanding the progression and development of the city; and tho fluctuating, unsteady flow of gns may be occasioned by tho demands of tho city outstripping tho enterprise of tho company. If tho Empiro City, as is the care with tho major portion of twelfthrat* Continental towns, possessed a number of buildings of sufficient importance to run an electric plant of their own, and gas was dppendod on to supply the motivo power, half - of Wellington wo-uld bo stooped in Stygian darkness from B-inPot to sunmc.— l am, etc. NEMO. Wellington, 23rd July.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1907, Page 10
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188WELLINGTON'S INADEQUATE GAS. TO THE EDITOR. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 27, 31 July 1907, Page 10
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