ELECTRIC LIGHT.

Waipa Post, Volume VI, Issue 269, 2 December 1913, Page 3

ELECTRIC LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR. Slß,—Would it not be advisable to wait ? Let us have the things that are essential first, i.e., roads, pavements and sanitation. It is questionable whether many private residents would go to the expense of wiring their houses. Landlords are not likely to do so for their tenants, they will shortly have to lay water on. It is a poor argument against coal gas to mention strikes when the Auckland electric trams have been so lately held up. Statistics are rery good in their way, but small production is as a rule more costly than large. Supposing that fifty consumers decide to instal electricity for a start, would this not be a loss to the ratepayers ? What would be the cost of wiring a house 100 yards from, the supply, say ten lights of the latest pattern ? Lastly, a few would welcome electric power. Current for motors is always cheaper, but costs the same to produce. —I am, etc., Pro Bono publico.

TO THE EDITOR. Slß,—Much has been said and written about the various methods of preparing our daily foods. The modern electric stove, with its time and temperature control, apparently leaves nothing more to be done in the culinary line. The tireless cooker is a wonderful labour-saving device for the home, but all the tireless cooker 'did was simply to utilise the heat units given to the food before being placed thereon. The electric stove goes one step further, and gives the necessary heat units for cooking to the food while placed in the cooker. This cooker consists of two heatingchambers built as a unit upon the heat insulation Built into the door of 'each chamber is a thermometer controlling an adjustable electric switch, which may be set to open at any desjred temperature. This switch controls the current supply to the heating element of that chamber. In series with the chamber controlling switches is a master switch, under control of an alarm clock, which may be set to close the switches at any desired time. With this stove the preparation of a full dinner becomes a simple matter. The prepared vegetables are placed in one compartment the thermometer being set to boiling temperature ; the meat is placed in the other compartment, that temperature being set to roasting temperature. The clock is then set to turn on the current at the proper time, and the respective thermometers regulate the current so as to supply just exactly the proper amount of heat to each compartment. At the right time the compartments are opened, and the food, which contains all the natural juices unaltered by gas or the products of combustion, is placed upon the table. The compartments in a stove of this type are so well insulated that no more heat is radiated from them than from a l6cp electric lamp.

With gas at 4s 2d per thousand cubic feet and electricity at 5d per kilowatt hour, the latter costs considerably less than a gas stove. On the top of the stove are a series of connecting sockets to which electric toasters or coffee pots, etc., may be attached and governed in the same way as the chamber of the cooker.