POWER CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1939, Page 4

POWER CHARGES

ADJUSTMENTS BY WAIRARAPA BOARD. SIMPLIFYING THE RATE. (“Times-Age” Special.) A great deal of thought had been given to simplifying the domestic and “All Electric' Home” rates and at the same time to framing the rates so that if in the future the board wished to combine the rates it would be possible |o do so, said Mr G. Brown, sec-retary-manager of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board at its annual meeting at Carterton yesterday. It was a more difficult matter than providing for a reduction in rates, said Mr Brown, as owing to the greater variation in the amount of power used by different individual' consumers, anomalies were bound to occur and had to be provided for without upsetting the balance of the rate, and in the present instance without causing too much reduction in revenue. He proposed the following rates:— Ordinary domestic: —First (No. of rooms x 2) units per month, 5d nett; next 60 units per month, ljd nett; next 120 units per month, Id nett; balance, 3d. nett. •He suggested that the “All Electric Home” rate be the same as above, except that a rebate id per unit be granted on a limit of 180 units per month. In such case, the rate would be:—First (No. of rooms x 2) _ Units per month, 5d nett; next 60 units per month, ljd nett; balance, nett. Small industrial motors under 5 h.p. 2d per unit nett. The rates as proposed by Mr Brown were agreed to.