REVENUE FROM ELECTRICITY

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4455, 22 May 1930, Page 2

REVENUE FROM ELECTRICITY

LAST MONTH £l2O BETTER THAN APRIL. 1020.

A comparative si a lenient of re - »chiie earned in April, l!)2i), and the i oiTosponding month of this year was presented to the lToi'owhenua Rower Board by the secretary (Mr. J. Ramsay) on “Tuesday, and it. showed an all-round increase. The lig-ures were as under, shillings and pence omitted: — LIGHTING. 11)2!) 1030 ['nits £ Units £ 1 lomostie 21,370 7-lli 23,880 841 increase, £O4 0/11. Units £ Units £ Commercial 0050 347 40,000 400 Increase, £52 10/1. HEATING. Units £ Units £ Domestic 7-0,470 550 88,023 051 Increase, £Ol 10/10. Units £ Units £ (“om-

mercia l 8045 77 12.750 10!) 1 11 crease, ,e.‘?2 11/1. POWER. Units £ Units £ 34,450 -012 11,118 000 Increase, £77 11/4. WATER,-HEATING. £ £ Domestic 100 247 Increase, £sl 12/7. £ £ Commercial 110 138 Increase, C2S 4/-. Totals £2050 £3070 increase, £420 4/10. In a memorandi\i»i, the Secretary slated that an increase of £42!) for 1030 is not an accurate indication the increased consumption of electricity over last year, for the reason tlmi, owing to the re-ar-rangenient of the meter-reader’s round, the reading of the meters in the Levin Borough in April, 1020, was a fortnight earlier than would normally have been the ease. The comparison was, therefore, not a i rue one, and after allowing for the Miort period in the Levin accounts last year, he estimated the increased consumption for April, 1030, at £l2O,