What \. ii< this electricity cost? a question that very naturally, obwnrles itself on the mimic <-.f not'”'*"’
consumers ui Mangahao power, unci u « mentioned by the- chairman the fiorowhenua Power board (Air ' Monk; at the first meeting in r iVUI yesterday. “We would look jI'JL I .' x,Ut ' ii alter- we had reticuJt, 10 wi iole district, wa found the !; Was dear that no one j d it." said Mr Monk. He • limit hoards should he insistent on ■ e Government naming a fixed maximum price at least. At first it had keen said that the power would he charged l'or at the same rate as that from Lake Coleridge, but trie cost of construction at Mangahao was enorfrtous, and it seemed that the cost cd the power would be haseij on t>■«* - Of Air' ~ cost i“dKed » ■" .viatheson con- . w.at rate throughout the Dominion would ultimately be made. “Similar to the railways, I suppose,” returned the, chairman. ‘‘Make the £jouth carry the North's btirtlas, and Oka sena.”
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Otaki Mail, 22 February 1922, Page 3
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