SERIOUS POWER SHORTAGE
THE paragraph in to-day's issue serves to illustrate still further the growing seriousness of the power situation and the fact is driven home by the announcement that the Bay of Plenty has been listed as one: of the emergency areas to be cut off in the event of an acute shortage arising. Residents within the definition of the 'Bay' area number approximately 25,000 and the great majority of these are dependent upon the power supply to carry out milking operations. In the town areas too practically every industrial venture, is motivated from the same source of energy. It would be hard to visualise the complete cutting off of power in this prosperous belt of country, yet the precedent for such action has already been set, by a similar action in North Auckland when without warning a power area was isolated in order to conserve supply. Consumers should take careful note that their only weapon against such action lies in voluntarily conserving their own supply, guarding against wastage and economising in the interests of a national obligation.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 84, 25 June 1943, Page 4
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179SERIOUS POWER SHORTAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 84, 25 June 1943, Page 4
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