ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24503, 28 February 1945, Page 6

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY

REDUCED . ' TQ CpNSUMiB^m effect from making dt'possible for everadnfawßaHaßß: power* said the ElectimPqwer and Supply Authorities the.Fatliamentary Government. To-day. foUtla* charges in 'New tomparfibleWith charges elsewbMJiMMßß tne.worid. . _ - . «H' -J&ntr W. H. Gillespie. WJP., IM| Ai' Nash, for the association,***JWWa theres had beeft occasions whenst«aMM power • boards had had tosmall rate. Referring to the reMSImWBB > rates olrCh&Tges for .electricity aiiwjßM and eOUhtry, he said the was tiyifijt tb bring all rates. dowaafSHiß the City level and W<is accomplgcpHßl that'laSt. t ‘T”SMlini - lie aswudation, in its dehee, said It recognised that JxiSraß mlght be instfiflces in which sure of amalgamation or alterationMiaßi • existing power board districts ? ; be advantageous. TheTElectric PPlfflHMilM-. Boards Act already contained. roObhllilMga ; ety for me- amalgamation tion of districts, and the had quite recently requested small amendments In particular tions in the act to permit their •- pose being realised more simply»::<|ffi®H on that point the. act was not wide enough;in .scope, and elation would support the of the Local Government tion Schemes) Bill - of IDS'?, with so|b||m .amendment to those sections with the 'constitution of a comto®w||Mp It was suggested/that. it Would be.ag|a»S improvement if fee biU simply Pss«H£ viqfedi for .the setting 'un of a commilpggi aloftand .if L a supporting schedule 'WffSSßfe! added to specify the type of persqq3HiW!fei nei for the different .classes of ■ loaSiMßi bodies. While the association Del ie the present .methods 0! raising TWWgMi .bodv. finance . were ehodld remain, so-lar as the eleetncigaßrei supply, service Was would suggest one shall ameharoetgsaf-1 in the application of the methbdaltilßa conducting a poll to sanction the wjfSSKa ing of a Joan, it was suggested the law >be emended so ihat a loßfgW|ja proposal. should he deemed ■to ?mSSmgm been carried unless a defined? propOE&Hrsl tion of those enrolled and efitit]e<|i|Hßa I vote exercised j their votes: agains&|ilSra proposal. , ■- \~~~r .