ELECTRIC HEATERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 300, 21 November 1918, Page 7

ELECTRIC HEATERS.

i Al. Tuesday night’s meeting of the Havelock worth Town board, Mr. J'i. ('. Clarkson prcsidinirr the Town Board Inspector drew attention to an extract from ihe N.Z. Journal of Scif-nco and Technology, and 1 o . earne’tJv requested that it might be passed on to their electric light and heat consumers. Tlio extract reads: i‘‘Another hazard of the iron—ant! I this applies also to radiators, keti ties, cookers, and simi'ar devices ! consulting a heavy current.—is in ■ operating timm from an ordinary lamp bolder, attached to a eord pendant. They should always be connected to a plug, having sufficient capacity to carry the current, and not from a tamp bolder, which, unless specially designed, will not carry the current without rapidly overheating. It would Le better if .the retailer always made a point of I advising his customer of the hazard run in operating off a lamp-holder, i but it was frequently found that he i would sell and attach an adapter to I the apparatus, so that the customer I could use it from any lighting point in trie house. A i- tailer had no ; moral right to keen silent on this point when he knows, or ought to know, what the hazard 1-. whilst in nine cases out of ten his customer ..does not. Perhaps he would not j run the risk of losing a sale by advising that it would be necessary to insta! a plug if there was not one j installed already.—The Inspects | was authori&.-'d to inform the peopk | that the practice referred to w I dangerous, and could not be pennit|ted.. and that it was nt'ecssary to j get proper points.