Still Cheaper

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 44, 16 May 1930, Page 22

Still Cheaper

THE Wellington City Council have decided to apply £16,000 of £60,000 profit made by the Electricity Department during the financial year just ended to the further reduction. of charges to consumers. Rates were last reduced as recently as January lust. Night-time water heating char-

ges are to be reduced thirty-three and a third per cent., commercial lighting is to be subject to a discount of 10 per cent. instead of 5 per cent. provided for at the last evision, and private consumers are to pay only one penny per unit for any consumed over the first 8 at 5d. for five-roomed houses. With the completion of the change-over in voltage, we foresee great extension in the use of electricity in Wellington,