BOARD MEMBER CHARGES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13056, 26 January 1943, Page 4

BOARD MEMBER CHARGES

BOROUGH'S RESPOND LETTER TOTHE EDl!_ A charge that Tauran&ll Council is responsible for|;| ent dispute between the co£the Tauranga Power BojrJl by Mr C. E. S. Gane, a'lJfj the board, in a letter, to |fl| of the Bay of Plenty .Mi Gane writes, under date JatK as follows: "Kindly allow me to adi. , light on the dispute*. "Firstly, it would k-B arisen had not the boronglH ter dated February 23, l!ilj§ celled the conference arranjS the P.W.D., Hamilton, i>j| 20-, which was to have fixed lis of the additional power m This letter was later repiitfe the chairman of the boroid mittee. "Secondly, the borough fJ| proceed with arbitration ?M by the board in April, lSlfp board having completed all tfl ments to do so.

"Thirdly, had the boron?! ed the board's offer of £l! May 4, 1942, it would have! a much better financial pot: day. It would also have! profitable market for its power after September, IMS. all probability would he to; peak load power at a mucin rate. "On the basis suggested s Court the borough will not titled to an amount very lit* cess of the board's offer, i than one-quarter of the be original claim.

"Various statements app«J the press are far from coflfl very misleading, especially j appearing in your corresM letter of January 9. '• I "The borough is in the | position of having hadarepj tive on the Power Board »| years past, and the board *u times endeavoured to assist, ough. in every possible *tyj always taken it into its efl despite all claims to \b**> "Yours since* »0. E.S.CThe Bay of Plenty TW»' no responsibility for the cf or otherwise of statement through its columns by co ents. It does, however, ra in the strongest terms suggestion of incorrect °r statements elsewhere in > and challenges Mr Garf evidence comparable *« ity of his cbargej>rj*f