Argument For Standardisation

NZ Truth, Issue 1227, 6 June 1929, Page 6

Argument For Standardisation

l PUT into a bundle, the installation equipments of New Zealand houses would represent a very job lot.. Housewives who move from dwelling-place to dwelling-place l invariably find that the radiator plug m the new home is quite different m pattern from that of the old • or the iron-plug has two prongs instead of three demanded m dwelling number two. Voltages, too, vary, and folk who are so fortunate as to enjoy the advantage of vacuum-sweepers discover that the new house voltage is [ approximately one hundred volts more m pressure than the old. [ A new generator is the solution of the problem: From the retailers' viewpoint this little system of electrical badinage may be rather exquisite. The man who ' pays the bills does not, however, t quite see the situation from the same angle. Why not standardisation, chairmen of power boards?