ECONOMIC ELECTRICITY.
COMMENT BY MINISTER.
in commenting this morning on the various steam generating proposals for the production of electric light and power, the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. J. G. Coates) expressed the decided opinion that the' suggestion of erecting a steam plant in the coal fields of the Waikato, and making use of a high tension wire front Horahora to Auckland, was one which should not be dismissed until subjected to minute consideration by the different corporations and districts interested. It was quite obvious, he remarked, that it would be very much better economy to run the energy over the line from the coal fields to Auckland than to carry the coal by rail for generating that energy. To instal a number of comparatively small steam plants within a certain area of consumption waa very likely to result in unnecessary economic waste.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 290, 4 December 1920, Page 7
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