ELECTRIC POWER.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10697, 16 October 1931, Page 3

ELECTRIC POWER.

i;.\Ti;\m.\<; kktut ration to ,\(i()N(i()T.VHA. Advice was received by the Rotorua County Council at its meeting on Wednesday that the Tourist Department has now received approval for the extension of its electrical reticulation to the Ngongotaha dis-1 trict (says the Rotorua Morning Rost I. When this extension was first suggested, the Department could not see its way immediately to give the extended reticulation required 1 , and a proposal was mooted that the extra power should be obtained from the Tauranga Power Board. At the September meeting of the council, Mr] 11. J. Hardie. district electrical eu-] gineer to the Tourist Department,' explained some aspects of the posi- j lion following subsequent negotia-, lions the council was advised by. 'phone at its meeting on Wednesday' that the Department has now rcceiv-1 crt approval for the necessary exten- j sion. j The Under-Secretary of the Public | Works Department, Wellington, wrote in connccion with the proposal I to include that portion of the Roto- 1 run County from the Tauranga Conn-1 ty boundary to the Mangorewa River as an outer area in the Tauranga | electric Power Board’s district. The ] Department sought an indication of j the Rotorua County Council’s attitude towards the inclusion of this area, and pointed out that such inclusion would not entail rating liability.— It was decided to inform the Department that the Rotorua County had I no objection to the district being extended along the lines indicated.