THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922. ELECTRIC CURRENT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4411, 8 May 1922, Page 2

THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY. WEDNESDAY. & FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1922. ELECTRIC CURRENT.

Following the lead of other towns Paeroa Borough will need, sooner or later, to purchase its current in bulk from the Thames Valley Electric Power Board, and retail it to the consumers. The position, briefly, is that the local body has to pay on the peak, or highest load, while the unused current in between peak loads, although paid for, is lost to the borough. The theory and practice is that by offering cheap current for industrial purposes at certain hours when the demand for lighting, cooking, etc., is slack, private enterprise is encouraged to start industries. The current may as well be sold at a low figure fora year or two at anyrate, thus giving inducement for industrial expansion. Paeroa, being so centrally situated, is well suited to become a manufacturing town for a great scope of country, and this fact needs to be kept clearly in view. The time is hardly ripe yet for the Borough Council to move, as it is desirable to gain further knowledge from the experience of other local bodies before definite steps are taken ; in the meantime, data can be collected, and policies shaped towards fitting in with conditions that will certainly arise in the hear future.