TE AWAMUTU ELECTRICITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 12

TE AWAMUTU ELECTRICITY

THE MONTH’S BUSINESS At the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board’s meeting on Friday the financial statement showed the Power Board Fund Account in debit £2,656 11s Bd, and the loan account in credit £lO 11s Id. Accounts presented for payment totalled £391 14s 7d last month and £783 17s Id this month. The revenue earned by the sale of current during December totalled £2,143 10s lid, made up of: General lighting, heating and meter rents, £792 4s lOd; power, £1,276 8s 9d; penalties and sundries, £3B 17s 4d; approximate street lighting, £36. This total included £37 14s 2d from the Kio Kio special area. For December, 1926, the revenue from the same source was £2,027 6s Bd.

The consumers’ finance account showed receipts £40,228 iOs Bd, and payments £39,797 10s Id, leaving a credit of £431 0s 7d.

Members agreed that the Public Works Department’s staff at Horahora were to be congratulated on their efforts to keep the supply of power on under great difficulties. The whole district had been well served. The New Zealand Railways business agent advised that his department was agreeable to carry the board’s poles (part of a consignment) which arrived at Auckland recently, at actual meara^ es * , The manager said He failed to understand why the Railway Department would not accept the table cenfpTtv^il of . rneasure ment aemflwnv b Shlpp,ne companies. The lailway basis was appreciably higher than that of the shipping people.