GAS DEPARTMENT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 81, 9 April 1918, Page 7

GAS DEPARTMENT

THE ENGINEER'S REPORT.

A folio from the Gas Engineer's report was inadvertently omitted from the article iii .Saturday's issue. The omitted portion is as follows: Unaccounted for gas : This matter has been brought before the 'Council by me regularly during tihe past four years, -but no serious attempt to reduce this item to a reasonable figure was made until April, itu-t, when the alteration to the gas ledger and accounts already referred to was made. ,So that the position may 'be more cleanly understood, I have shown in the tabulated form below the gas manufactured and gas lost in cubic feet, also the percentage loss of the total gas manufactured each year from 1836 to 1917, tihe year just completed. For the period from 1906 to 1917 I have also shown the loss in revenue to the 'Council year by year. Table 1.

[From th e a>bove it will he clearly seen that the energy and money expended during the year in reducing the leakage account has resulted in 'bringing th 6 Nelson city gas undertaking into line with other gas undertakings in the country, but there is still much to be done, and it is possible to further improve the position by careful attention to the many technical and practical details of the undertaking. To emphasise my point more clearly, I would direct your attention to the period from 1896 to 1911, when the eras department was under tJhe management of others than a gas engineer, and note the percentage loss.

T3 u •2, ea - a - t V^i F* C3 L Q Gas manufacturi in cubic feet. Gas unaccounted in cubic feet. Per cent. loss. J Jf STS bo " o TE> .213 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1903 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 22,440,000 5,483,600 24,331,400 7,668,800 25,139,100 7,034,000 26,127;700 6,960,800 25,617.700 5,712,700 29,280,900 9,225,400 30,007,200 7,231.300 29,975,200 6,748,300 33,309,500 9,591,500 No record. 34,800,900 8,874,200 35,343,900 8,445,300 39,407,200 10,519,600 39,386,500 11,079,700 37,654,000 10,418,600 37,920,800 9,185,300 42,551,400 9,264,800 46,376,100 9,922,300 48,242,300 11,268,300 49,206,900 8,807,500 50,107,500 10,401,500 48,468,800 5,149,100 24.4 31.5 27.99 26.6 22.3 31.5 24.0 22.5 28.8 25.5 23.9 26.7 28.1 27.6 24.2 21.7 21.4 23.3 17,9 20.7 10.6 £ 2906 2764 3443 3616 3400 2982 3010 2894 3286 2568 2900 1553