PAYMENT FOR GAS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1920, Page 4

PAYMENT FOR GAS.

NEW SYSTEM PROPOSED. . AUCKLAND SQHEME ENDORSE** - The question of the payment fo> |U ? on its calorific value was recently be*' * fore the New Plymouth Borough CffiRQCIV ■ when the general manager and tie sen« gineer were delegated to draft none Wg- '<; gestions for amended legislation to vide for tfie institution of such a, sWtem, s „ They reported to the Council JlMl night, mentioning that in the intern] v the Auckland Prices Investigation Tri" • bunal had dealt with the matter in a re* port to the Board of Trade. TheJUfb* committee, therefore, recommended the Council should endorse the following recommendations of the Tribunal:— "That the Government be asked t« introduce legislation (a) so that th» consumer-shall be dbarged for tSUi folume of gas which it supplied ft ' basis of heat units actually attUttbtc in that volume, such calorific to be determined at frequent itttorfalt by some authority independent ot the supplying bodies, and (b) to provide for authoritative testing of ud »W er ' vision over gas meters." ' In addition to this, the OouncU»l»f decided to support the introduction ol legislation making it compulsonr*'iW * company or corporation to proatyp f*t of a standard of purity to lie Am fc] the Government, by regulation, far 4fcu district.