GAS AND ELECTRICITY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19437, 24 October 1925, Page 10

GAS AND ELECTRICITY

(To the Editor). Sir, —At the Council meeting on Tuesday, the Mayor is reported to have said that gas could compete with electricity and score every time. This should carry some weight, as Mr Hope Gibbons is also a member of the Power Board, whose function is to encourage the sale of electricity. I find that Cr. A. H. Bogers seconded the motion for the laying of gas to Castlecliff; he is also a member of the Power Board. Now to relate my own experience: I was told that cooking by electricity was past the experimental stage and, accepting the advice of the Power Board officials (not the members of the Board), I installed a range and am more than delighted with the result. It is the cheapest, cleanest and most efficient cooking apparatus that has ever been installed in my house, and all others who have installed them acknowledge the same satisfaction. The manager of the Power Board asked if he might publish a letter which I sent him, and I advised him that I have no objection to making public my experience, especially in view of the popular misrepresentation of electric cooking.—l am, etc., THOS. A. ANDERSEN. 31 Boydfield Street, Wanganui East, October 22, 1925.