SOUTHLAND'S ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 6

SOUTHLAND'S ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY.

SCHEME IN JEOPARDY ;<JJ3| riNANOIALLY. 'Wm (special to "xbb nutss.";. < jjT| "?gj INVERCARGILL, April -iggn Mr. W. H'inchey, who is chairman of tho Southland Power Board, during tho ab»>nw;jfl|j»j England of Mr A. W. Rodger, M%H turned, after interviewing merabett#Jl| the Cabinet in Wellington Kftojjftaf the finances necessary for P with the scheme. , Jlw^ Evidently conditions have arisen cannot be considered satisfactory, 'fßpaal ►Mr Hinchey intimated to a tive of the "Southland Times* 1 tWßgj»|| may be necessary to adjourn tho taking until money is more easuy f WjMi curable. The position is to be IIjbS&I sidered at a meeting on Monday M gj^i The stoppage of the works at jjfffL*.! stage would certainly have an '"flßgfid made all the more serious by tho n Bgpd pects of unemployment during the <jjfi%gH ing winter. At present about 1001 H$"J are employed at tho works, and an Hjl-Ja activities extended it was expectadj W£*ft the Board would.be able to its employment men forced to flrarl other vocations. Manufacturing cerns would also bo affected consWjMl 1 ably. One foundry especially has WBlfd devoting the major portion of MjJSg&i put to the Power Board's «^ u » r * a frSs!,i To date, the Board has oxpepdwif.ffi large amount of money on aHßßwfl and in the preliminary work *t