FARM AND HOME ELECTRICITY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1931, Page 11

FARM AND HOME ELECTRICITY.

BOROUGH COUNCIL’S GOOD DISPLAY

Appliances that appeal to every housewife are to be seen at the New Plymouth Borough Council’s display. The present age is an age of electricity, now the obedient servant of mankind, and homes arc becoming more and more electrified as the years go by. Electricity is certainly the cleanest of heating am lighting services, and has the advantage of being efficient. 4 Conservative people who declare thcie is nothing like the old-fashioned wood fire will surely be won over by tho display of Belling electric radiators. These Electric Fires mean healthy warmth, just wherever and whenever one most needs it and as much as one needs of it. They mean economy, because they need be switched on only when required; they add no dust, fumes or smoke to soil the decorations, ceiling or furniture. Belling fires are handsome in appearance, and never go wrong. A flickering flame effect behind artificial glowing coals give a cheery effect and adds that natural touch. ■ , . The exhibition of electric ranges provides vet another example of how the lot of "the housewife has been lightened since the application of electricity in the home. Electric cooking means cooking in comfort. The heat is always constant and under close control. The operation is safe and hygienic and economical, because the use ot . electricity means an extraordinary saving in the actual weight and value of the food cooked. Moffatt ranges are being shown, and the Moffatt Company of Canada, has never made anything but the best. Cooking and heating are not the only uses Lu which electricity can be applied in the home. The Savage Washing Machine will be welcomed by the young housewife who wishes to avoid the eteinal drudgery of scrubbing clothes—she can turn a switch and the washing machine will do the work while she watches it; and the machine will no more harm clothes than would the gentlest hands. A point worth remembering is the fact that the council have on show a Frigidaire refrigerator. All one has to do to ensure ice throughout the summer time is to place water in the . chamber, and electricity does the rest. All the delights of frozen delicacies can be captured at small cost, and worry over sour milk and tainted meat is gone for ever. The farmer is not forgotten. The spectre of summer drought is always present for the Taranaki dairyman; his tanks run dry, and he has to make weary journeys to the stream and fill his milk-cans for shed and home use. Now he can install a Regina pump, electricians come to his farm and put in a small motor, and there is an assured supply all the year round. Then there is the wearisome, daily task of providing hot water after the morning milking, certainly not a difficult job but very regulai 1 . There are electric water heaters that work silently, efficiently always, at a negligible cost and provide a large supply of boiling water each morning. The cost of all these electrical labour-savers is not so large that farmers cannot afford them. Cooking demonstrations will be given every afternoon and evening by Miss Wolferstan, instructress at the Technical College.