POWER SUPPLY.
MINISTER'S ULTIMATUM. RATE INCREASE DEMANDED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) GISBORNE, this day. Following further negotiations with the Minister of Public Works, the Wairoa Power Board lias now received formal notice that the Department will terminate its contract for tho supply of current to the board unless tho board aprees to the Department's previous stipulations that tho rate to be fitriick for the price of current shall be increased by 10 per cent, and the waterheating rate- by r>o per cent, and that all arrears shall be paid. Tho board discussed the Minister's ultimatum at some length. The principal objection to the Government's term is that, rather than improve the situation, it would mako it woree, since higher charges would reduce consumption and the rate would be difficult to collect. Finally it was decided to strike a rate to produce £2300, sufficient to avoid increasing charges, and that tho chairman go to Wellington to submit this proposal to the ' Minister, and endeavour to arrange for the arrears to be held over for a period of years.
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Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 18
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