GAS VERSUS ELECTRICITY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 852, 5 July 1906, Page 4

GAS VERSUS ELECTRICITY

STREET LIGHTING IN LONDON. EXTRACT FROM “ THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD’S ” LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, 10th MARCH, 1906. I 1 GAS v. ELECTRICITY. | “The substitution of incandescent gaslamps for both arc and incandescent electric lights goes on apace in London. Its progress in London city itself I re- I cently mentioned, the London Corporation having practically re-established gas every- ( where that their control exists. Appa- , . rently the adjacent city of Westminster , j is coming into line ; the electric-light stan- | dards recently erected along Waterloo Bridge at the cost of some considerable , injury to the granite balustrade of that , splendid work —the finest of its class in the world—are all being removed, incandescent gas-lamps being substituted. So, too, the North London Railway Company have decided to employ the same means of lighting for their terminus in Broadstreet. What with this new extension of gas-lighting and the rapid spread of gas stoves, both for heating and for cooking, it certainly does look as if the holders of gas shares were likely to ‘come into their own’ to a very profitable and agreeable tune.”