POWER SHORTAGE
NO INCREASE IN QUOTA
HOSPITAL ADDITIONS PROBLEM to where we were " observed the Mayor. "If we hadn't received an increase we just couldn't have carried on during the past two years." Cr Shaplcy: What about urging the Government to put in coal ranges in the new State houses, instead of electric stoves. It all means an increased demand which .we can't meet. Cr Warren: How long before Kumpire will be in working order? The Mayor: In- 1947 I think. The position is that there is a great shortage and we have just got to face up "to it. We. will probably have to cut out our street lighting and all power which is not essential. On Cr Warren's suggestion it was decided to send a circular round to householders pointing out the drastic shortage, of power and urg r ing conservation ancl economy*
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 66, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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145POWER SHORTAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 66, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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