POWER BOARDS SUFFER
HASTINGS, July 16. j "Tt sooms strange that tlie GovernI mont sliould be receiving from supjily authorities li i gh e,r payments while jsiipplv authorities are compelled 10 j snirer losses in revenue tlirougli no jfault of their own," said the ehairman 1 of the Hawke's Bay Power Board, AI r. jS. Ashcroft, today when ntoving a jmotion, which was carried, that £160( | due as the quarter's payment to the j Government, be paid under protest and jtliat tlie Government be approached to | make an adjustment. j "It is quito unfair, " he said, "that jsiqiply authorities sliould be expected . to carrv the Inmlep because of somei body else 'R' pnst'kke^^'^yVA' , Alr. AT: ,S. C]iilrn.i'tei'g | ridiclous flvii t ' t h (|'l ) d^fd^.Slio'njil be' couijpelled to pay this eharge while it was being forced to eut down its own revenue. He contended that tlie Government could not justly disclaim responsibility for the power shortage as he contended it was largelv brought 'about tlirougli the repereussions of the j Government 's policy particularly in Ihe c oa 1 1 n i n i 11 g i n d ust ry .
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 July 1946, Page 5
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