CONSUMPTION OF POWER SIMPLY MUST BE CUT
Power consumption in • this area has to go down. If not
voluntarily, then compulsorily. The Bay of Plenty Electric Power Board has been requested to keep within its allocation, particularly on account of the fact that, due to dry weather, the State hydro-elec-tricity resources are seriously strained.
“We don’t want to impose arbitrary cuts if we can help it,” said the Board’s secretary-manager, Mr J. D. Dicker, speaking to the Beacon yesterday, “but if consumers do not react to our advertised instruction to reduce consumption by at least. 5 per cent, then cuts will have to be imposed.” He said the Board, by stringent economy, was getting somewhere near the safety mark, but the further 5 per cent reduction was absolutely Necessary.
Latest bulletin from the State i Hydro Electricity Department says that recent light rains brought about no improvement in conditions at Taupo and Waikaremoana, and added that it was very/necessary that urgent steps be taken to implement the urgent request for a reduction in consumption issued by the Department on January 25.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 95, 8 February 1950, Page 5
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181CONSUMPTION OF POWER SIMPLY MUST BE CUT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 95, 8 February 1950, Page 5
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