WATER-POWER
$ — EXPLOITATION URGED BY ME. LLOYD GGOUGE. London, December 31. llr. Lloyd George visited tho water* power works_ ut Conway Valley, in n spcech ho said''he regretted that Britain was a most backward nation in tho usn of water-power. Germany had long used water-power for agricultural and other purposes. lie pointed to tho Australian opportunities, and said the secret of the future lay in tho adequate exploitation of great natural resources. Choanal* power would revolutionise industry. i>bour was demanding shorter hours, an,! thereforo something nmet bo done to increase production. There were willing hands in the clouds, and tlioy did not demand an eight-hour day. It was trim that tho clouds sometimes struck; but tho dams wero prepared iu strike-break, ers, with great reservoirs of stored wnt<v? to be used while the clouds wero striking. —Aus.-N.Z.' Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 83, 2 January 1920, Page 5
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