142 CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF SMALL GASWORKS. 



knowledge of the necessity for looking after and regulating 

 the taps, there is not much trouble on this score. In fact, 

 the difficulty is rather that the reduction in consumption 

 introduces a large number of very small accounts of, say, 

 i os. or less, which means a large increase in the proportion 

 of working expenses to income. 



