AUXILIARY OIL PLANT
VIEW OF AUCKLAND’S NEEDS
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. March 14. "The State Hydro-Electric Department’s policy in frequently publishing pretty propaganda pictures of Karapiro is simply fooling the people,” said the general manager of the Waitemata Power Board, Mr A. Main, referring to the electricity crisis to-day. “That station, even if fully completed by the winter of next year, wilTnot take care of the dammed up load. Unless there is an immediate change of policy and control in the State Hydro-Electric Department and unless the Government, as a matter of grave national importance, installs in urgency an ample oil burning auxiliary plant, the people will suffer drastic shortages of electricity until 1952 or 1953.” Mr Main said the people had a right to an abundance of electricity. They had been let down in a disastrous manner. •
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25134, 15 March 1947, Page 8
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