TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY LIFE

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17335, 25 November 1916, Page 7

TOWN VERSUS COUNTRY LIFE

How many city folks hare spid, I would love to live in the country it it were not for-the nights, .or .it 1 could take niv city conveniences ..with. me. Nowadays, however, many country homes are as up-to-date in most respects as any in the city, and New Zealand farmers are each year taking more and more pride in making home life attractive. . ' The want of good artificial light has until recently been the outstanding drawback, smoky kerosene lamps or an ■unreliable and dangexous lighting plant were until recently the onl> ■; appliances obtainable by the tanner, or country resident of moderate means, as even a small electric light installation runs into hundreds of pounds, and costs a. great deal in upkeep and repairs. Keeping the young 1 oik on the farm is a problem that tuts only developed since electricity and mean-j descent gas hare made the city so j alluring. Two years ago a lighting i svstem for country homes, stores, etc., , was introduced in New Zealand that completely does away with this drawback, and by the outlay ol a lew pounds a farmer can now have his home fitted with an incandescent gas lighting plant that supplies a light superior to" coal gas or electric light,' and at much less running cost than either. This invention, known as the "Wizard Gns-Liehting System, has already been installed in nearly two thousand homes in the Dominion. and after a severe test the New Zealand Government ■ is installing it in all new country post offices, wireless stations, etc., while the report received from the military authorities proves that they also have found it satisfactory in every way. " Wizard " Lamps are patented, and thtrefo.-c cannot be copied. The plant is constructed on what is known as the " Hollow-wire " System. The benzine or petrol from which the gas is generated is turned into, vapour mixed with air, in the proportion of' about 97 pen- cent air and 3 per cent vapour, and burns in an inverted mantle. 'Hie "Wizard" is the only lamp that has a cleaning needle, can bo lit with -a single match, and is absolutely fly and moth proof, so that the mantles cannot be broken by these pests. It will pay interested people to write to tho agents for particulars of the "Wizard" plant beforo being persuaded by a. clever salesman that some other plant is "just as good." Write to--Messrs Cuddon and Jameson, 21.3, Manchester Street, for full particulars. ■-X7 1