The change-over from the method of pumping its water with a suction gas plant to an electrically-driven plant- has proved beneficial to the I/ower Hult Borough Council. The engineer reports that the cpst of the two systems was: Suction gas, lJpl per ICOO gallons: and electricity, ? ( d per ICOO gallons. During the last- fortnight 6,917,660 gallons wore pumped. The pumping of the sewage 1 V electricity has effected a saving of 700,000 gallons of water per week, previously used! hv the hydraulic pumps. I'OLA NEC.HI’S IDEAL MAN. ‘•The man for me is a pipe-smoking man,” declares lovely l 1 o’.a Negri. ‘‘The tobacco for me is Richmond Rest,” declares the man who has once smoked RB.—cool as a parachute-jumper- sweet as a cheque in the morning’s mail—fragrant as a pine-grove on a damp mot ning.* [The cable news in this issue accredited to the London Times has appeared in that journal; but only where exereß»iT stared is such, news the •*diV>ri*l opinion el the Timaa.l
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 5
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