ELECTRICITY CHARGES.
FLAT RATE VERSUS METIERS. POSITION OF ROWER BOARD. Arising out of the manager’s report at yesterday’s meeting of the Thames Valley Electric Power Board Mr J. Price drew attention to the fact that of 122 electric cooking stoves in operation in the board’s territory 16 were on the meter basis. He said that in one of the boroughs five ranges had been connected and were working on a flat rate basis owing to a mistake made by the board’s workmen. He contended that there were a large number of people who would be willing to instal electric stoves provided electricity was charged on the flat rate. Mr Price sajd he was quite satisfied that if the board was making money out of .the. sale of electricity on the flat rate to ’farmers with ranges a considerable amount of revenue would be forthcoming if the same practice was followed in the boroughs. The residents of the boroughs should be afforded the same facilities for using electricity as the farming community, and the board should do all it couM to popularise the use of electricity. He would like the engineer to consider the question of giving people in meter areas the option of installing ranges on a flat rate basis.
In reply to the chairman (Mr F. M. Strange) the engineer (Mr N. G. McLeod) said that he was at present collecting data for the purpose of making a comparison between the two charges. Mr F. E. Flatt said he would like to receive a report from the engineer, by the next .meeting. The subject was of considerable moment toi the Paeroa Borough.
The engineer, said that to enabte a ful report to be submitted a lot of investigation and detailed work was necessary. Others matters were ajso claiming his attention, but he was prepared to make, an effort to obtain the information in time for the; next meeting. Mr Flatt thereupon moved .that the December meeting be deferred one week so as to give the engineer a better opportunity to prepare the report. The engineer assured the members that he would do his best.
Mr Flatt’s motion failed to find a seconder, and it was agreed to hold the meeting as usual, on the first Tuesday in December.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5047, 3 November 1926, Page 2
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379ELECTRICITY CHARGES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5047, 3 November 1926, Page 2
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