SAVE POWER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 52, 15 March 1946, Page 5

SAVE POWER

WARNING TO CONSUMERS EIGHT PER CENT. CUT DEMANDED The following statement has been handed to us by His Worship the Mayor, Mr B. S. Barry:—

“The Whakatane Borough Council as Electricity Supply Authority for the Whakatane Borough has been advised by the Electricity Controller that the consumption of electricity in the Borough must be reduced immediately by 8 per cent.

Accordingly water heaters will be cut off for a further two hours daily, street lighting, under verandah shop lighting and shop window lighting will be discontinued.

Although these restrictions will effect a certain saving of electricity this saving will not be sufficient unless consumers do all in their power* to save and conserve electricity.

In the event of a sufficient saving not being effected then it „„ will be necessary to cut off the electricity supply completely for an hour each day. This will have a serious effect as to be effective it must be at a time when a considerable amount of electricity is being used. Furthermore it will mean that all electric cooking facilities all petrol pumps, all electrically driven commercial machines (and there are a in the Borough) will be out of action and consequently certain industries will be more or less at a standstill for this hour.

An earnest appeal is therefore made to all consumers not to waste electricity but to economise in all possible ways. If all consumers will co-operate to the fullest posible extent then it may be possible to- avoid taking the above-mentioned drastic step.”