lak Light 3 per cet Healing' And Cooking 33 per cent; Eommerciat Bune Sopnty 9a ber cent Small Power'
Total Consumption The Gas Company 'The Shanghai Gas Ca, has an' equally encouraging report to make. During the first nine months. of this Year, the output of gas for industrial purposes for that period amounted to 174,000,000 cubic fect as compared with 129,000,000 cubic feet last year for the similar period, This means an increase of 33 per cent. over the consumption for the similar period the year before. The Gas Company can also point to a remarkable ferease in the number of users of gas for commercial purposes during the ast nine—months. This increase amounts to 28 per cent, as compared with 1935, while the total output of has increased by 52,000,000 cubic feot, equal to ten per cent. increase on ihe Mgures for 1925. No Sherlocke Holmes is needed to deduce from, these figures that business is looking, 'The story told by the Waterworks is less plain since water is a neces~ sary commodity in bad times as fas good, Tt is justifiable to claim, however, that the records of that company go to support the belief that' Shanghai is nearly round the vomer, The reaction to the return to prosperity is, of course, slower so] far og the Waterworks is concemmed than in the ease of the Power Company or Gas Company, but the foures Showing Improvement are none the tess significant,
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