HUGE POWER SCHEME.
AUSTRALIAN DEVELOPMENT. WORK TO COST £12,000,000. The New South Wales Government's proposed far-reaching scheme of electric power development—it will cost £12,000,000, and will take nine or ten years to complete—constitutes a largescale attempt to meet a big State's growing need*. In the metropolitan area of Sydney alone, about 95 per cent ot the secondary industries are already dependent on electricity for their motive power. New uses for electricity are constantly being found in Sydney, as, for example, in air-conditioning. The Government, however, is being warned to proceed cautiously w s th any grandiose scheme involving millions, and is being reminded how fatallv eae\
it is to spend millions on what appear to be Hound enough propositions, onh to find the State burdened with heav> losses. The new scheme aims, broadl> at the linking up of power centres inti' a large electrical "grid" for the coordination of supply and distribution, extension of the electrification of the railways, and investigation of hydroelectric possibilities.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 11
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