CITY POWER CONTRACT.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 27 April 1925, Page 10

CITY POWER CONTRACT.

INDUSTRIALISTS PLEASED.

"We were all pleased to see the Mayor's statement regarding the tiec* tricity contract," .Mr E. H. Marriner, president of the Industrial Asiodttron' said at the meeting of tl»o executive o* Friday night. "We understand a very successful contract has been tor power for the next tweWe years, and wo arc given to understand tfat I there will be no increase in price. 1 As industrialists we are ail T«y plea*. i ed indeed. It is rery hopeful* to - ■ that a contract of that description has hocn fixed up. wherobv power is prto tieally asstireu for twelve years.'' Jtr I. Woolf asked if there worne ■ be sufficient power.

Mr Marnnor said that the? would seo to that matter as they went along; ; but it was guaranteed at the present t»me. t

Regarding the reference in Fridiv ' issue of "The Pre«s" to the v'ontract, 'Councillor J. W. ller.nland. whilst cHting with a reporter, expressed astonish, metit that the work done by Councillor' C. P. Agar and all the local merabeis - of Parliament (two of whom were men** bers of the City Council) had not been * mentioned in connexion with the suecossful issue of the negotiations with tho Government for the new contract for the simply of power from Lake Coleridge. These gentlemen. Councillor t Beanland added, have contributed*, largely towards the success of tie negotiations. to rag hhtok or "tjte rilu" ■ K Sir,—lt was with a considerable amount of astonishment, not unmixed with amusement, that I read in yoftr paper of Friday's date, that "a moHfc ' meat is afoot to record tho thanks 0» V tho citizens to the gentlemen primarily responsible tor the successful coif pletion of tho Lake Coleridge fcupply r , contract." Then your report goes on to name those "primarily responsible.*'' Here you are in serious error,'af among those who have been " primarily"'?, responsible" arc .several gentlemen m' whom you make no mention what®terJ:,s Councillor C. P. Agar was moro'particularly responsible than other for finality being reached. ' Tte-'r Christchurch members of Parliaments Messrs Isitt, Sullivan, McCotnba, Ho%- ® nrd, and .\rnis-tronp. deserve a ywy ~ large measure of praise, for it was their work in the House that the of "Wnimakariri rates" was foUndj&vp Tho previous Council deserve the.qjfejk ssens' praise for their work in obtaarag a report, upon the Waimokariri, aigp its possibilities for an electrical supHpj?? to Christchureh ; for it was this vbuSbsi that set out the rates known as 'jraß makariri rates"' upon which the of tho present, contract were fixed. 'T£ do not wish to detract from, rather » 1 I wish to express appreciation of. excellent work done by tho Council • * rub-committee (the Mayor, CfJ. Mfr* Kellar find Agar), but I would ptrw ; ■ out that after all they were onlr the - ones deputed to carry out,the Coaßcil's policy which wa» framed and supported bv the whole Council. Labour, and Citizens' Association alike, and also by our one and only Independent, Cr. "Winsor. • , . , Tt will be a sorry day for Munujpaj politics when every contract oompfefeft. . is made tho medium of «» moTemew*. to recognise etc." —Yours, ete^, OSCAiI W. B. ANDERSON. April 21th, 1935. ■ji