HOW THE MONEY GOES

Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 4

HOW THE MONEY GOES

Some nine months ago, when the question of the illumination of the Town Hall was before the Sydney City Council, complaint was made about the glare of the electric lights in the htXL la order to remove this (says the ' Daily Telegraph*), it was resolved to purchase some " radiators," the aldermen being under the impression that these contrivances were for the purpose el softening glaring lights. As a. matter of £act,ia "radiator," as the term is used in electrical science, is a, movable heating apparatus, and in response to a cable to England * number of radiators were consigned to the Council. They were distributed throughout the Town Hall, and accepted in silence until the bill came in. Then the Finance Committee bad to pass an item of £2OO for electric fittings, involved by the purchase of the radiators. When the members of the Committee found that their purchases were the "warming pans," as the* are commonly known at the Town Hail, consternation settled upon them. But as the radiators had been ordered, they had to "be paid for, and tie money was duly passed, bat some of the aldermen have learned a lessen in tfee meaning of terms.