ELECTRIC POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 9

ELECTRIC POWER

MEETING OF WAIRARAPA BOARD) INCREASE IN REVENUE FOR YEAR. (“Times-Age” Special.) The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board was held today at Carterton. The secretary-manager, Mr George Brown, reported that all returns foi the final month of the financial year were satisfactory. The revenue from both ordinary sales and bulk supply showed an increase as compared with both the corresponding month of last year and with the estimate. For the complete financial year the net revenue was £55,913 18s 2d, as compared with £53,374 6s 8d the previous year. The substantial increase in the number of units sold in March for cooking and heat was very noticeable and the turnover in the Trading Department had been exceeded once only. Although the number of new installations was showing a decrease as' compared with last year, the new connected load remained high, owing to the number and character of additions to existing installations. The number of consumers was now 5858. The petition to include the TaueruTinui district in the board’s inner area had been signed by the requisite number of ratepayers and the completion of the guarantee agreement was in sight. The necessary agreement for the Ahiaruhe extension had been completed. The engineer, Mr H. B. Keenan, reported that seventeen service connections had been erected in the northern area, two in the central and five in the southern.