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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1851, 28 August 1907, Page 17

The extreme poverty of Church of England clergymen may be gathered from the fact that there are. 1490 beneficed clergymen whose ecclesiastical incomes do not exceed «£67 a year, and 4704 whose incomes are less than J 2150 a year.

From very early times the wind has been used by man as a source of mechanical power, and so far is it from being superseded by other forces that projects have recently been put forward to utilise it to a far greater extent than ever, especially for electric lighting. With this object in view, an investigation of the average state of the wind has been made. It has been found that approximately half the time the mean wind velocity is 10 miles an hour, and for about one-tliird of the 4me 15 miles. In the winter the averages are higher. The great difficulty arises from the calm periods, which may last three days or even a week; but it has been shown that economical lighting plants can be based upon wind power by providing gasoline motors to take up the work whenever the wind fails.