The gross revenue for the year, derived from the sale of electric current in Christchurch and neighboring districts from L*ake_ Coleridge, was £51.373, against £45,833 in the previous year. Ihe net result of the year’s operations was a profit, of £3447. The maximum power house load increased during the year from 94-20 horse-power to 9.880 horse-power, and the power-house output from 33,010,130 units to 36,309,580 units. The rated capacity of the powerhouse plant is 8000 horse-power, and this plant has been running daily at a heavy overload up to 20 per cent. The saving of coal in the various industries or the province by the use of the electric power instead of steam power, has been very substantial. To have developed 36,000,000 units in a large modern steam plant would have reauired the use of 48,000 tons of coal worth from £lOO,OOO to £120.000. The development of this amount of power in numerous small engines, such as were employed in Christchurch before hydro-electricity became, available, would have required the use of three or four times this amount of coal, or corresponding Atiflbntitiej of oil itarasgMe
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1921, Page 9
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