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Kōrero: Energy supply and use

Coal gas to natural gas

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Coal gas to natural gas

Gas worker T. Victory drills out the ports of Mrs P. Hoey’s oven. The conversion from coal gas to natural gas required a number of adjustments to all appliances, including domestic stoves.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1969/3743/43

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Megan Cook, Energy supply and use – Natural gas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21461/coal-gas-to-natural-gas (accessed 1 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.