CHEAP ELECTRICITY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17469, 1 June 1922, Page 5

CHEAP ELECTRICITY.

DEVELOPMENT. irfglSlAL AND DOMESTIC. Ltfonoous development of hydroILj, jn Canada within the last |rZg M dealt with in the course f&Zgnew by Mr C. A. Seager, Messrs Turnbull and -Upland, who has just returniLi'trip through Canada and the mjjpid development of hydroMjt. fa Canada nas created a : jSgand for electric supplies," jgEgger. "Domestio appliances made in Canada, which §K«ual in every respect to 'Jffijjl made in the States, and ' TKpferential duty Canada will *BL a ble to supply customers *BTof the very best quality at Wfa lower prices thai hitherSitt one conditio" that exist 3 flkna/U and the United States fflyw be mentioned, that the ser- | JEghout is 110 volts for all • jK-jjfl domestio uses. In both Sm they cannot understand why JFlLund has adopted 230 volts ilr3Saard. At Winnipeg, with ImSi of about 220,000, they nuppues. A private fa«ie company owns and runs th* r«»d huTito own generating stall alio Bupplies current to conmm for both light and power, fa is extreme competition between peospany and the Government sysKwiththe resalt that the consumers ft turrent at leas than one-half of it mnnicip*.l charges in New Zealand. Flia growth of tbe use of electric Iwittc appliances in Winnipeg _js Hy wonSerful. tuat year the comptj connected up approximately 3000 prises for electric ranges. Most of tar supply engineers in New Zealand Sronrtge thie type of load because fey uj it doe* not pay- The Camv fian eajrineor k after erery consumer »f tUadasa fee, can gtt. In Toronto As cttrtcea is the oonsumer are, I !her© else- in ents and one nta for quanta* there is a industries and meal." t the electrical rought in from ibout 80 miles. ;ition for supin the Niagara te Toronto Hyter was spendillion dollars in iment of electatario, includonderful Chip--0 h.p., in adm power plant m» that an inBxiated. which of water over p amount of power planta e original flow y reduced and reasonable die ism. The Ontberefore deon about fire ud bring the ch would give or head existmt twice the with the same tower station gest electrical ontinued Mr w60,000 b.h.p. lghs 760 ton's iollars. This te continuousta at the time » similar ma- . at Hamilton. k. speaks volth© electrical think Niagara development ire than an;r-