Electricity Costs in Auckland

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 32, 21 February 1930, Page 27

Electricity Costs in Auckland

JN a recent number of the "Radio Reeord and Electric Home Jour nal" figures were quoted showing the cost of running several electricallyequipped Wellington houses. According to comparative figures obtained from the Auckland Blectric Power Board, the cost of electricity, for domestic use is a little higher in ‘Auckland than it is in Wellington, although even there it is very cheap compared with other means of lighting and heating. Auckland figures show that tha average cost of lighting and ironing by electricity for a five-roomed house is £4 per year, the average cost of operating an electric stove is £10 per year, and the average cost of power for an electric hot water heater is betweep » £6 and £7 per year. The cost of electricity per week in a medium-sized Auckland home where lighting, cooking, ironing, and radiator heating is electrically carried out is about six shillings, The Auckland Electric Power Board supplies power to a number of the surrounding boroughs, and in its whoie district there are nearly twelve thousand electric stoves operating. A number of dairy farmers are supplted with power for their mi’king machinery, and the cost of milk'ng a herd of from fifty to sixty cows. on @ four-cow plant, averages £4 per quarter, or, if milking is continued all the year round, £16 per annum.