Test Match Listeners.
I Evid'erice of the tremendous I interest being taken. in the first I cricket Test between New ZealAnd, | and England was the jump in S power consumption throughqut the | Dominion on Saturday night whqn 1 a ball-by-ball account of the play I' was broadcast. In the North Island 2 the load soared a.t 10.30, when play | began, by about 10,000 kilowatts, I and was maintained ' at that level I until the luncheon intervai a,t 12.30, i a.m. (New Zealand time). After I that the "demand fell back to about 1 5000 kilowatts above normal until 2 the commentary ended between 5 I and 6 o'cloek. Record listening-in I period was at the time of the Royal I Wehdtpg in 1947, . when the, load T shot up to about 15,000 . kilowatts above normal1,
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1949, Page 4
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135Test Match Listeners. Chronicle (Levin), 14 June 1949, Page 4
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