"More Hope for Gas Companies."

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 13927, 4 August 1905, Page 5

" More Hope for Gas Companies."

Under this heading the "Economist" pi May 6th,., says /—The idea, that electric light would supersede gWs^ wKcb was prevalent some years ago, has proved entirely erroneous, and" & decision arrived at on Thursday by the Court of Common Council suggests that in s Greet lighting electricity may have to give way to the older illuminaiit. The Streets CoirJmittee submitted a scheme to the Common Council for experimentally lighting Queen Victoria Street and a portion of Lower Thames Street with high pressure or incandescent gas lamps- in substitution for. electric light, the .saving that would be effected by the change being estimat- | cd. at £400 ,per annum. It was stated in support of the proposal, which tcr discussion was adopted, -that*** .regards street -lighting the electric «£M iiad proved a failuiv, aiH l that ft had been abandoned in Berlin and r Vienna, and was gradually being giv«»n up in Paris. The experiments aow to be made in the city will certainly be watched with interest, for the subject is of great .importance from the point of view both <of the investor and the ratepayer. I n regard to the increased production of gas in the United Kingdom; the annual returns show that the total output rose from 114,303,678,000 cubic feet in 1894 to 164,207,842,000 cubic feet in 1903.