POWER CONSUMERS
Increase Of 1000 A Year Hoped For Power sale figures for April, 1938, to February, 1939, compared with the sama period' of 1937-38, as presented to the Hutt Valiev Electric Power Board yesterday, are: £116,791 (£109,204), increase £7587. The board has now 14,411 installations. . Mr. S. Blackley pointed opt that this represented more installations than there were ratepayers in the district. The engineer-general manager, Mr. E. F. Hollands, said that there had been 1000 consumers added in each of the past two years, and in 1931 and 1934. He expected this increase to be maintained. The chairman, Mr. A. W. Press, said he thought this optimistic. Mr. S. Blackley said that there, were not 1000 new houses being erected in the district annually.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19390324.2.30.2
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125POWER CONSUMERS Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in