Tropical Air Condition
p. 154 · Read in the full issue
From Hea Ting
To Cooling
Canadian Co. Plans Tropical Air Condition
THE tropical home of the futi will be rather different from j present tropical home, and o tamly more livable.
Txr T £ at is the Prediction of Walter J. Weldon of the Colerr Lamp & Stove Co. of Toronto v dropped in to Sydney in May in course of one of his periodil Pacific trips as Director of Expo of that organisation.
Coleman products are almost; traditional in the Islands as South Sea trader.
Mr. Weldon was pleading w the respective Government Treas : les for more liberal dollar alloc tions for his agents along the roi He said that his company is n producing small home air conditk mg units—a new departure Coleman—and already they 5 finding a keen market hT art where import licences have be< granted.
Mr. Weldon predicts that in a f years every tropical home will! equipped with such a device. Go then will be the necessity of hay" l a gale of wind blowing through i home to keep it cool. Instead, t house will be sealed and the clirau within will be “to order”, whate 1 ' conditions are like outside.
The problem of dampness fc mildew in every cupboard as drawer will be gone for ever—as it will all be done by a neat lift unit no larger than your man radio. Only dollar problems £ delaying their arrival in t Islands now.
Mr. Weldon visited Suva on % present round.