LAKE COLERIDGE POWER.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1921, Page 5

LAKE COLERIDGE POWER.

RESTRICTIONS OF SUPPLY. CHRISTCHURCH AFFECTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. « Christchurch, Last Night. Regarding the breakdown of the new generator at the Lake Coleridge power house, Mr. Hitchcock, general manager of the city electricity department, made the following statement: “The position calls for the full realisation by the public of its seriousness. • The trouble is quite unprecedented, and has resulted in reducing the capacity of the plant to half of that which was confidently anticipated a few weeks ago. Replacements cannot be made for at .least three or four months, and while it is fortunate these happen to be summer months, it is only by the co-opera-tion of the whole community with the supply authorities that serious •disorganisation can be averted.

“The City Council is maintaining its steam plant and sharing the load. Before being able to state specifically how it is proposed to control the load to the best advantage to all consumers, it may be necessary to go carefully into the whole question of the relative demands of the different, industries, but it must be obvious to everyone that all domestic consumers must economise rigidly during the day from 7.45 a.m. to 5.15 p.m •by shifting everything possible to the night load, and by getting the tramways to take their share, and by taking all we can with our own steam plant, it may be possible to meet the city’s requirements with the remaining plant without serious disorganisation.”