LAKE COLERIDGE POWER.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16433, 29 January 1919, Page 3

LAKE COLERIDGE POWER.

EXTENSION TO THE PENINSULA

Representatives from the Wairewa and Akaroa County Councils and the Akaroa Borough Council, met in conference at' J>uvauchel]e on Saturday, afternoon, to consider matters in connexion with the extension of the Lake Coleridge electric power to the Peninsula. Mr J. R. Thacker was voted to the chair. A letter was read from the Public Works Department, stating that tho line would be surveyed before tho end of January. A great deal of discussion centred round the question of the extent of the special rating areas, some of the Little River delegates inferring that the Akaroa end of the Peninsula was not doing all that might be done to promote the scheme. Mr J. D. Bruce strongly protested against such an inference. He maintained that his district wished to have a payable scheme put into effect as soon as possible. Eventually it \vas decided, on his motion, that Mr Templin, the electrical engineer, he asked to delineate the rating areas before the middlo of February, when a poll of the ratepayers would bo taken, and, further, that combined action be taken by. all the local bodies concerned to have the sum for the main line placed on this year's estimates by the Government. It was resolved to write to the Minister of Public Works, reminding him of his promise to carry the lino on to the Peninsula after the war, this extension to have precedence of any other. The conference arranged to meet again at the Hill Top on February 22nd.