Gas.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12583, 2 October 1908, Page 7

Gas.

TO THX IDITOIt.

Sir, — Re "Consumer's" letter, which appeared in the "Herald" last night, I for one endorse his opinion. If the gas management would endeavour to manufacture pure gas instead of large dividends, my lot, for one, would be far happier than, it is at present, as it is a well-known fact that the more inferior the gas the greater the consumption required, therefore increasing the* gas bill. Hoping something will be done to remedy this state of affairs. — I am, etc., GAS-ENGINE DRIVER. "Within the next fifty or one hundred years water-power will prove to be one of Westland's most valuable assets, and even now there are certain possibilities connected with the conversion of hydraulic energy into electricity in connection with power purposes and the manufacture of nitrates from atmospheric nitrogen," says Dr Bell, director of geological survey. We have exhibited in our office window, say the Dannevirke Advocate, a wild lemon, grown in the Tauranga district. This fruit, which resembles a young pumpkin in size and shajpe, weighs about one and a half pounds. Although this is large for a lemon, yet -in the cultivated groves at Tauranga lemons grow to a much larger size and at the rate of about £0 dozen to a tree. No wonder Tauranga has been described «£ the -future California of . New .Zealand.! . . V- - - •♦■• A certain dairy farmer, not a hundred miles from the slopes of Mount Egmont, i recently received a large official envelope containing a requisition calling upon him ito effect certain improvements. Amongst I other improvements, he was called upon in all seriousness to remove the well from ■ the vicinity of the stockyard. The face of the farmer when he read this command I was a study. Scratching-. his head, he remarked : "Och and be jabers, I don't mind I shifting the pigstye or the cowshed; but I'm d— — d if I'll tackle the shifting of the well; no, not for Father Peter." Interesting evidence of the fatal habit of eating wool developed by snow-bound sheep was shown to an Otago Daily Times reporter on Friday afternoon, in the form of a large wad of tightly-packed wool of the size and shape of a sheep's stomach. I This exhibit had been brought down to Dunedin by Mr Robert Scott, of Kyebunr, and had been taken fron\ the stomach of one of the sheep which Mr Scott had lost i in the recent storm. It is intended to offer the piece of wool to the Dunedin Mv- ' scum authorities.

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