LIGHT,HEAT, AND POWER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1913, Page 14

LIGHT,HEAT, AND POWER.

GAS AND-ELECTRICITY. order of the essentials of a bnodrirrt city after ■water supply^ _ drainage, and street {Saving would, in the of most people,- come the light-5-irfg of the city.' An' ill-lit city can oiever be-a. good cityj^ darkness harbours >att- manner of evils. In its • lighting is as well off as in- othor 1 es*6eMials, It has gas supplied' by a company for > light and .heat in 1 ■the home, and electricity for light in the Bstfeeets and the home, and also for power -arid heat on a minor scale at present, f-bnt with great prospects of extension gwhen charges pet unit come down a. piWJe and certain improvements, are made tim the application of electricity ,to cookother household purpdses, \( !! r A JTLOtJRISHING ENTERPRISE*/ 'v j'Electricity,3&-l)y no means a new thing Tfaj .WeHingtonr , The streets of the city •"wiere &vs^ lighted, by electricity as far' H3j£ck as; the year 1889. For nearly rtwenty years the supply for gtreet lightfirig and domestic power purposes was in "t^e hands of a private company. ProiJposals were made- from time to time for )niie purchase of the plant by the corporation, and the general municipalisa'"tfon of electricity in Wellington, but it '•was not until August, 1907, that this w^as actually, carried out. The price was 14160,000. The plant was an extremely rtiixed one, and far from economical. one of the first acts of the City JjOEtectrical Engineer, when the corporation took over the works, was 'to 'secure ■■the installation of a Parsons steam tur'•b,me and generator. Great economies in production of electricity were at once Manifested, and a progressive policy oi development, now possible, began. The ''•efatry into the field of the metallic fila fjiSenfc lamp at first reduced the revenue 'Very materially, but the net result has

Generating expenses have been further cut down by the shifting of boilers closer to the turbine, and with the advent of another turbine tho cost should bo lowered, considerably still.