ELECTRICITY CHARGES IN WAIMAIRI COUNTY
TO THE EDITOR OT THE PRESS. Sir,—l am afraid Mr R. B. Owen is distorting the figures by quoting a special rate for shop lighting and heating in the city, and not commercial and industrial power rates at all. He does not tell us what maximum rating he is charged oh; but I venture to say that if I used as many lighting and heating points in Waimairi as Mr Owen does in the city, the Waimairi account would be nearly double his account of £4 16s 6d. The commercial and. industrial power figures I quoted were not guesswork, but correct Municipal Electricity Department figures as supplied; namely. Municipal Electricity Department £1 13s 4d for 600 units, as against Waimairi £3 Is 2d for 600 units. Mr Owen’s special lighting rate cannot compare with a commercial ■ power rate, which costs nearly twice as much in Waimairi as in the city. In conclusion. I heartily agree with your correspondent over the darkness of Egypt; but if he had been with me on Saturday morning between 5 a.m. and daybreak, he would have called Fendalton the Black Hole of Calcutta. There was not a street light for miles. —Yours, etc., WAIMAIRI COMMERCIAL USER. July 15, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22765, 18 July 1939, Page 7
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