THE FIREWOOD PROBLEM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12405, 24 August 1918, Page 7

THE FIREWOOD PROBLEM.

INTERVIEW WITH MR

COSSET.

Quite apart from the national coal problem. Christchurch has a little fuel i problem of its own. Air A. Gusset, ! trim was seen by a “ Star ’’ reprej tentative on the .subject yesterday, is anxious that the public should know 1 that his policy of a “square deal” |, continues- His every cord of firewood \solu is guaranteed to lie (nil measure. Sit x -lit x fit. and filling twenty-eight sacks each -ISiu high by' 2tiin ’across. I The. reporter saw a cord measured off j [or a customer, who stood hy and saw | it cut hy the electrically driven circular saw. bagged up. and put aboard tlie cart. It was a good cord—the. measuring stick was in the customer’s favour—yet the __ twenty-eight sacks "ere not filled. But, in keeping with his regular policy. Air Gosset had" them j filled and tho customer got more than jhe paid lor. It appears that a cord | of 4ft logs will not cub a cord of 8-inch i blocks, and that a “cradle’' of blocks thrown in promiscuously, alihouMi measuring a cord, would absorb only about three-quarters from the dealer’s stack. 'I he “load’’ of firewood is an indefinite quantity, and Air Gosset advises having hy the IS-ineh sacks measure His yard at !09. Cashel Street is doin'" big business, rutting eleven to fourteen cords ol blnegum and pine tlnilv, selling ai U2 LAs a cord mixed or 23 X for ail gnm. Arrangements have been made lor the delivery of 17.1)01) cords in a stated time, arid Air Gosset knows ho can sell every slick, because be never gives short, measure, and a steadily growing army ol satisfied customers is ialking for him. so that lie never needs to employ canvasser.*. The telephone number i* 1 At) l, 7