HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER
CONTEIvENCE TO CONSIDER WAI-KAIIE-MOANA SCHEME-
By Teleeraob—Press Association. Napier, December o. ' A conference ol eighty delegates, icprcsenting East Coasi locabodies, «•»» openeu in the Municipal Theatre this morning to consider urging tne piosecution of the Waikare-moami scheme. The Mayor of Nap"* presided. Iho Hon. W. Fraser and Mr. lar'-V " 10 Government Chief Electrical Engineer, were present. . Mr. Parry, in reply to a question, said the Mangahao schema could supply JNapier as soon as Wellington. It was not lor him to say which was the better sciicme, as that is a policy inattci. After the conference a deputation waited on the Hon. W.. Fraser and presented resolutions urging the national importance of establishing a power station at Lake A\ aikare-jnoana, and the valuable industrial and economic results which would follow. The Minister wa:« not sympathetic, and refused to mate a statement or policy. No 0110 district, he said, would bo considered before another, and political influence was not' a factor. The delegates and Sir Joseph ward, Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald, and Hon. \\. Fraser, were entertained at a banquet in the evening.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 6
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182HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 62, 6 December 1917, Page 6
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