APPLIED ELECTRICITY.

Progress, Volume VII, Issue 2, 1 December 1911, Page 932

APPLIED ELECTRICITY.

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are at 45 and 47 Cuba Street, Wellington, dates from the year 1886, when the business was founded in Sydney and Melbourne. In 1909 Mr. H. F. Vickery, A.M.I.E.E. (London), the Manager, came over Lo establish the local branch, and the Company’s operations now extend throughout the entire Dominion.

The marvellous advance in the application of electrical energy to the varied needs and requirements of modern life has rendered it possible to utilise this unseen but powerful force in a greatly increased variety of ways. Its cleanliness, its regularity, the ease with which it can be brought into requisition and the reasonableness of the cost all combine to constitute electricity a most popular agent Lor all purposes to which it has, already been applied. The future will, doubtless reveal many other methods of adapting the subtle fluid lo the use and benefit of the human race. The picture gives a portion only of the extensive showrooms of the Lawrence and Hanson Electrical

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poses. Motor Car accessories, including accumulators, magnetos, sparking plugs, and high «R n-ible wire, 0 4e also kept tu -took. Electric Radiators, in chaste and

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ally the Company maintains extensive stocks of all kinds of elect? fitting ' tan, and includingu W- SW&£3S ‘‘BnZ down” metallic filament lamps, telephones,

and cables, in addition to others already named. Although in Australia the Company are large contractors, the business in New Zealand is confined only to the wholesale trade. It is of general interest to note that the Wellington City Corporation has recently let a contract to the Lawrence and Hanson Electrical Company for supplying plant in connection with the extension of the water supply. At Eoseneath a 64 brake h.p. motor, direct coupled to a six inch six stage high lift centrifugal pump capable of delivering 300 gallons per minute against a total head of 378 feet, is being erected. The same power motor is to be used at Melrose, coupled to . a six inch five stage pump equal to 350 galls per minute, at a height of 232 feet, and at Wadestown a motor of 150 h.p. will operate with a seven inch seven stage appliance capable of lifting 500 gallons per minute against a total head of 555 feet. High level residents next summer should therefore never suffer a water famine. The above not iuconsider-

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The Company are Agents for the Hart Accumulator Co. of England; Venner Time Switches, Ltd., England; Glover’s Cable Co., England.

additions to the woodwork room at Lincoln School. Plans and specifications at the office of the Board Normal School, and also at the respective school houses. Tenders close Dec. 5. For the erection of a Bell Tower, St. Paul's Church, Papanui. Drawings and specification may be seen at my office up till Monday, llth December, 1911. Cyril J. Mountfort, architect. ■ 8 and 9 Dalgety’s Buildings, Cathedral Square, Christchurch. For malthousc and kiln (brick), for the Crown Brewery Co-, Ltd., Antigua Street, Christchurch. Plans and specifications at our office. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. Tenders close Doc. Bth. S. and A. Luttroll, . architects, “Times” Chambers, Gloucester Street, Christchurch.