CHARGES FOR POWER
OBJECTION TO INCREASE MILLS TAKE ACTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) OAMARU, This Day. As a sequel to the Waitaki Power Board's decision to increase its charges to four mills one mill has decided to discontinue to use electricity. The loss in revenue is £500 to the board. Another company proposes to transfer one shift to Christchurcli, involving a wages loss to Oainaru of £1200 at least, and a loss of revenue to the board of £250. On being interviewed Mr. I. Daliner, engineer-manager to tho board, said the big point to be noted was that Christchurch was supplied by tho Government with power at under £.5 10s per kilowatt per annum compared with country power boards generally of about £8 10s per k..v.a. per annum, the kilowatt being greater than k.v.a. Tho city could distribute cheaper, and it was hopeless to expect country boards in tho smaller towns to compote with the cities while such discriminating charges were made by the Government. They tended to cripple secondary industries in tho smaller towns, and the country districts had to pay for that discrimination.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 8
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184CHARGES FOR POWER Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 8
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