ELECTRICITY IN BRITAIN
A PROGRESSIVE PCLIDV (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
RUGBY, March 22. The Minister of Transport (Colonel Ashley), in a. speech in London yesterday, referred to the effects of the recent Electricity Act, which is stimulating the use of electricity and reducing the price. He said there were now 438 generating stations in the country, I hut the working of the Act would have ( the effect ultimately of reducing the number to eighty super stations, interconnected and with standardised current. When the consumption reached 500 units per head, the average price would be not more, than Id per unit, and it was estimated that this consumption would be readied by 1940. Consumers would pay £-14,500,000 less annually than if the Act had not been passed." Electrification in rural areas would immensely increase the amenities of the areas, and would bring a groat extension of the smaller rural industries, and would have an immense effect in bringing people back to the land, The Central Electricity Board set up by the Electricity Act has placed further contracts amounting to approximately £.1,500,000 lor work in connection with the South-east, Central, and Morth-wcst England schemes.
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Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6
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194ELECTRICITY IN BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6
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