ELECTRIC LIGHT
STEADY INCREASE IN BUSINESS. The corporation's most lucrative business Electric Lighting Department, which now has to its credit a Bum of. .£90,000, part of which, at all events, will he required for additional turbine engines and boilers, just as soon as tho overworked world can supply them. Next month will see the lighting department working to its fullest productive" capacitv-the annual mid-winter peak-load-when the plant will bo taxed to its fullest power to produce the current tho hungry city wants in ever-in-creasing quantity. That tho revenue and amount of ■ current used are still steadily, increasing is shown by the following return for April (presented -o the Tramways and Lighting Committee of the City Council yesterday), which shows an inoreaso in the revenuo of .€1135, and in the working expenses of I'SC9. The return is as follows:1918. 1017, £ •£ Revenue W 5.957 Working expenses... .3,191 2,623 Capital charges .... 1,100 1.100 Credit balanco -2,201 l.«» Units sold 405-003 329,662
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 4
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158ELECTRIC LIGHT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 4
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