Club members in the West End of London are taking a livelier interest than usual in how their food is cooked. The electricity concerns are conducting an energetic drive to increase the consumption of current, and in some quarters this push for more business has been interpreted to abolish gas and coal cooking.
I hear of threats to refuse contracts unless more electricity is "consumed for purposes other than lighting and heating. Chefs, on the other hand, contend that certain cooking is not possible without the use of coal fires and flames. One consumer o pressed this point is allowed by he fire four times a electricity company dinners. year for special to have a coal One club secretary has my sympathy. The change from coal to electricity for cooking is calculated to double the electricity bill But the club chairman is a peer with considerable interests in the electrical industry. The dilemma seems to call for a certain amount of tact.
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