CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1921, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

ELECTRIC POWER BOARD. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It appears to me that Cr. Anderson’s unreasoning advocacy of the Eltham committee’s proposal has landed him in a hopelessly illogical attitude. Me contends that the Progress League’s proposal is an impossibility by reason of the existing licenses. He detailed the areas covered by the latter as including Now Plymouth and the greater portions of the Ilawera, Waimate West, Eltham and Egmont Counties. His own statement admits the existence of a license over portion of the proposed power district he advocates. If such licenses ; constitute an impossibility in the one case, why would they not in the other? A more serious aspect of his is contained in his omission to mention other licenses existing over other portions of the district he’ advocates. He claims to have deeply studied this important question, and as a county councillor he must know that the Stratford County and Borough are subject to a license, yet apparently he deliberately omits to mention such license. This omission would justify severe comment, from which I will refrain, meantime hoping that Cr. Anderson may explain. A very-cogent argument in favor of an extensive district is the necessity for absorbing some of the licenses, and the greater facility which an extensive board would possess in such a contingency.— I am, etc., J. B. RICHARDS, Stratford, May 28.