ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9430, 29 January 1921, Page 4

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY.

NEEDS OF CANTERBURY. POWER FROM COLERIDGE; m DEMONSTRATION BY PROVINCE* VISIT OF THE MINISTER. REQUIREMENTS OUTLINED, (Special to the "Guardian.") WHAKAMATAU, This Day. , Notwithstanding the heavy •• south- ; west rain, Canterbury's demonstration., at the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric ' power works on the occasion of the 1 * first visit of the Minister for PublicWorks j the Hon. J. G. Coates, wajj ! successfully carried out. The atten- Ui . dance was very large and the Minister was greatly impressed with the state- J ment as to Canterbury's requirements and the possibilities of hydro-electrioW power development m this part of Can- • •: terbury. . ; The size ot the gathering was somewhat of a surprise to the Minister, illustrating, as it did, the widespread iieed of the province m respect to elee"lricijby supply and showing the amount of sjipp^t^e. Minister is likely to re^;, v ceive iii-,'iponjjeci4o^i with anyiiwork the"* ■•■ Governm'eilt 4 un^ertake-.loc. deyel- *<V) oping" hydra^fecQjLCiiy^ru .i-cC .--;"-. i^ , Ashbjirton Tjtowjfi, . and ■ cptt&ty\ tFefco il | £ " repreden!|ed. by large contmgelats,\'in- ; i <) ' 1 j eluding' 'th^.Mayor, Mr.rßii Galbraith, ■•' \ and n(iembefs of ,the .Boroughs Gotlncil, : : " - Mr Ci R.eid, Chairman of tne County ' Council, "and, members Of the Countyv Council, Mr F. Watt, chairman of tno^ ; Ashburton County Power Board, and ! the chairmen and mem.liers of County Road Boards and 'other local .bodies, ' and Mr Te^ipljp, engineer to .the-Asb-burton County Power Board. ■ H & (*'■':'■ Districts as far north as Kaiapoi arid' 0 Oxford, arid as far south. as Geraldifle, Temuka and Timaru were represented* Mr A. G. Henderson, president of theCanterbury Progress League, and Mr P. R. Climie, organiser to the League, were among those present, the former • addressing the Minister and emphasising the needs of the whole of Canterbury m respect to power from the Lake . Coleridge works. ( . The Minister reached Lake 'Coler • ridge from Christchurch about midday . and. was given a particularly hearty re- - ceptioh. He was accompanied : by the.; Hon. Sir R\ Heaton , Rhodes and MrV. David Jones, M.P. , '_