COAL—THE RICH MAN'S FUEL.

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 2

COAL—THE RICH MAN'S FUEL.

WHAT MR. LAWRENCE BIRKS

SAYS.

"Only the rich man can afford to burn coal—it is so terribly wasteful and extravagant," said Mr. Lawrence Birks in the course of a lecture in the Town Hall last night. - . "Do you know that only about one per cent, of the fuel you burn in a stove or range gives heat—the other 99 per cent, goes up the chimney." " Mr. Birks believes that when the hydro-electric scheme is .carried out here we will do all our heating and cooking by electricity. However, that time is still a long way off. • Meanwhile, what can be done to check the waste in coal consumption? It is now generally recognised that the only effective way to economise fuel is by sprinkling it with Saveo. This patented preparation has been used with, astonishing results by hundreds of Wellington people. Careful tests have provedl that Saveo-treated coal burns at least 50 per cent, longer, and gives a brighter, hotter, and cleaner fire.

Saveo is sold by nearly all grocers and ironmongers at sixpence a packetIt ie regularly stocked by such wellknown stores as D.1.C., Wairarapa Farmers', Bennett's, David Anderson, Wardell's, Duthte's, M'llraith's, Campbell's three shops, George Winder, Sims Hardware, Janson Bros., Stewart Timber and Hardware, 1 Town and Country Stoves, Priestley (Kelburn), Raine (Karori), Allan Anderson and Mouat Bros. (Kent-terrace). Cooper .Hardware, W. Wylie, S. Phillips, J. F. Turnbiil), Sus-sex-square Grocery (Newtown), Boyd's (Hataitai),. Andrewartha, (Kilbirnio).