CHARGING FOR ELECTRICITY
NEW SYSTEM ADVOCATED. Necessity is tho mother of invention. Owing to the shortage of electrical equipment tho activities of tho City Electrical Department are to a certain extent curtailed, though the jruniber of connections made in the past three months has been greater thaji in any other period of three months in. the history of the department. tVhnt has been proposed now by the manager of. the Lighting Department (Mr. George Lauchlan) in , order to curtail work and save plant ia that all the electricity used in private residences should be put through a single meter, and, in order to equitably adjust the account, an average amount will be oharp---Ml for light (baspd-on the averajro for the year previously), and that all over that amount shall be charged, as heat. By adopting such a plan the department- would have placed at its disposal a large number of meters, which' are now , extremely expensive.' Indeed, the saving wonld run into many thousands of pounds. J ... , The report (which' the committee has approved) will be presented to the City Council at to-morrow evening's meeting.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 7, 3 October 1917, Page 4
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185CHARGING FOR ELECTRICITY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 7, 3 October 1917, Page 4
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