POOR GAS.
<.. „ r ,TO THB BDTXOB,. •Mr,—Would you kindly insert this, ad it partly express the feefings of adumber f George street shopkeepers. ThogwwS have been getting the past week or two has been the worst I have ever seen, and unless a consideraibk improvement * made £ery soon, I, for one, will have to^S my work after dusk. Complaints were frequent when the gas was/ at least decent, 'S r°£ DO / onl £ u U little than the light of candles, but with the meter T o !' get Mor ? than half o supply flv e burners. I ara not one given o continual growling but words caCot express my feelings when I have to praclicaUy stop my business at 5 p.m. instoad of ? p.m., and thereby lose tL priS business ol the day ft those in authority cannot give us quality, at least let'thorn give quantity.—l am, etc., July 17. M ° BE Q * H '
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Evening Star, Issue 12867, 17 July 1906, Page 5
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153POOR GAS. Evening Star, Issue 12867, 17 July 1906, Page 5
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