THE HOUSEHOLD FUEL AND LIGHTING ORDER. (To THE EDITOR OF
THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—Perhaps you will kindly allow me a little space to tell the " Fuel Overseer that his hopeful forecast as to my allowance of coal has not been fulfilled. I have got my paper, and my allow- ance for the year is to be ten and three-quarter tons. This figure is arrived at by saying that the allowance is thirteen tons, and then deducting the amount of gas by which I exceeded the present allowance during last year. I cannot possibly keep a kitchen-firs on this meagre amount; my only alternative seems to be to dismiss my servants (for they cannot live without a fire in the winter, albeit that most of the newspapers seem to think that the only use for a fire is to cook) and live and cook in one room. This house is so cold that it is absolutely necessary to have it centrally heated, and this takes nine tons of coke a year. Pardon me for thus bringing my private grievances before you, but I am an example of what is going on in many homes, and it is to this pass that Government control of mines has brought the country.—I am,
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