ELECTRICITY FOR RURAL AREAS
WELLINGTON, Monday. Farm properties and cottages occupie'd by farm workers will be copneoted with electrical supply on 580 miles of power line which the Ryiral Electrical Reticulation Council'is to start to build soon in more sparsqly occupied parts of the country, announced the chairman of the Electricity Board, Mr. F. T M. Kissel. a total of 980 new consumers would be supplied and a number- oJ o.ther applications involving 155 miles of line and 280 settlers was beirig investigated and it was likely that work on many of these would soon be started. Mr. Kissel said that this was just the staxt of a scheme.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 February 1947, Page 5
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