ELECTRICITY SUPPLY
BULK CHARGES TO SMALL POWER BOARDS
REDUCTION NOT POSSIBLE Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Nov. 27.
The possibility of amalgamating small electric power boards was discussed before the Royal Commission on the Sheep Industry yesterday, whep the Electricity Controller, Mr F. T. M. Kissel, gave evidence. Amalgamation was possible, said Mr Kissel, chiefly where power was supplied by both urban and rural authorities which could for this purpose be constituted into a single power board. To the, chairman of the commission, Mr R. H. White, Mr Kissel said that there was no possibility of bulk charges to small boards being reduced. He said that 95 per cent, of the population in New Zealand was supplied with electricity, and he did not know of any country in the world where there was less difference between the price charged to the farmer at the end of the line and the price to the man in the city. Representatives of the electric power boards of New Zealand in evidence declared that the .boards were alive to their responsibility to supply as much of the rural population as possible with electricity, and had built up a network of rural reticulation which compared favourably with that of any other country in the world.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26630, 28 November 1947, Page 6
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208ELECTRICITY SUPPLY Otago Daily Times, Issue 26630, 28 November 1947, Page 6
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