USE OF ELECTRICITY.
GROWTH IN HOROWHENUA. POWER BOARD TO CONSIDER REDUCTION OF CHARGES. A very satisfactory year's progress is outlined in the annual report presented to the Horowhenua Electric Power Board by its secretary and treasurer (Mr P. W. Goldsmith) on Tuesday. It shows that there is a nett surplus for the year of £6055, and that the electricity sales amounted to £33,889. The principal revenue was from power sales, £14,548; lighting : brought in £12,192, heating £3746, .waipr-heaters £2173, and street' lighting £1228. A committee was. set up, consisting of Messrs A. Seifert, W. 11. Gunning, T. G. Vincent and the Chairman (Mr G. A. Monk) to go into the financial position and report to the Board on the advisability or otherwise of reducing the Board's charges for electricity and the establishment of a fund to cover •afi&ewals.
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Shannon News, 3 May 1927, Page 3
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138USE OF ELECTRICITY. Shannon News, 3 May 1927, Page 3
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