A Good Margin

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 42, 2 May 1930, Page 22

A Good Margin

Electricity in Wellington. HE Electricity Department of the Wellington City Council :is to be congratulated on the year’s trading just ended, resulting in a profit to that department of £60,000.: Wellington has, in the meantime, been well served and economically, and at little expense to the consumer. At a meeting of the council, there was some discussion as to the allotment of: these profits, som , of the City Fathers contending that~ they should be applied to the redue-

tion of the Tramway Department’s debt, others that electrical facilities should be made still cheaper, ‘and charges to consumers be. reduced. Both arguments are entitled to ous consideration, but one great po int remains to be made. So far the council, or rather the Electricity Department, while the change-over in voltage has been in progress, has not unduly advocated the purchase of home electrical appliances to nearly the extent of its known advisability. Saturation point has never been even nearly approached, but with a universal. voltage, so much greater home use will undoubtedly be made of electricity that it can readily be seen how cheap- : er electric power will in the neary future become. It is not too much to say that, shortly, electricity will not only be the cleanest and the most efficient, but by far the least costly way of cleaning and cooking for homes in the district of the Wellington City Council,