Mr. George Waite, the Gulgong plumber, has just completed the fitting up of an ascetylene gas plant at the Post Office Hotel, and that building is now splendidly lighted within and without. The ascetylene gas has made a great transformation in Gulgong, and the town which two or three years ago was illuminated with the lurid light of the kerosene lamps is now made bright by ascetylene gas.

– Mudgee Guardian Monday 25 July 1904.