USES OF GAS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 4

USES OF GAS.

DEMONSTRATED AT WEMBLEY EXHIBITION. Tlie British Empire gas’ exhibit in the Palace of Industry at Wembley occupies a space of over 12,000 square feet; tho capital invested in the industry is .•GltiO,ooo,ooo. Facts of this kind were furnished in plenty at a luncheon at the Carlton Hotel recently, in connection with the Exhibition in which, tho gas undertakings of the Empire are cooperating, and at which Mr F. W. Goodendugh, chairman of tho ..committee, presided, reports the London correspondent of tho Manchester Guardian. Explaining that, the exhibit had been organised and paid for by the gas undertakings generally, both municipal and company, ranging from Aberdeen to Penzance and from Dover (p Cork, Mr Goodonough said that the industry everywhere had joined in the elfort to demonstrate by file exhibit what the service of gas to the Empire could bo. Oversea undertakings, he added, as wed as those in the British Isles, were represented, “ and I would like,” ho added, “to emphasise the fact that our allocation is in (bo very centre of the Palace of Industry.” Tho soirit of coal, said Mr Goodenough, might, be taken to typify what it whs intended should be made plain to all at the Exhibition. It tk symbolised in. tbe fiery red poster of the exhibit proclaiming that light, heat, and power wore all to he.' found in the black piece of coal. They were striving, ho said, to devise the most economic and satisfactory way by which, without (Wiling the atmosphere, and with the minimum of time, labour, and trouble, tho fullest advantage might be obtained from coal. Keening that idea of the spirit of coal in mindi, they would show in (ha course, of the Exhibition its industrial application and possibilitos, oonsder t hstoroally, and, not least interesting or important, treat of its by-products, which included tho wonderful things that could he got from that apparently uninteresting thing, “ a lump of coal,” which, black as a. conjurer’s hat, was quite as remarkable for the number of things that came out of it.

The exhibit is expected to demonstrate the evil of making smoko, and how in a scientific and economic way this danger to health and comfort can 'bo removed. Diagrams. charts, and pictures are being arranged to show how smoke is allowed to disfigure town and country—Manchester's extra laundry bill, for example, as a result cf the smoko evil, is srt, down at £250,000 n year. It will ho shown that, tho gas industry is concentrating on turning the coal at the gasworks into efficient smoke-, leas fuel to lake the place of coal, and quite a, wonderful variety of the chemical by-products thus recovered will be bottled and shown at Wembley.