POWER CUTS IN AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25445, 17 March 1948, Page 3

POWER CUTS IN AUCKLAND

BAN ON USE OF ALL RADIATORS

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 16. Prohibition on the use of domestic and commercial electnc storage water heaters of more than three gallons capacity between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily in the Auckland Electric Power Board’s district will come into force to-morrow. Until further notice water heaters may be used only for 12 hours during the night. The restriction will remain in force during the week-ends. Hotels and boardinghouses are not exempted from the prohibition, as they were by the Government from restrictions last year. The only exemptions are for water heaters used m farming and the dairying industry (excluding domestic heaters in farm houses), in hospitals, and the consulting rooms of meoical, dental, or veterinary surgeons, restaurants, dairies or milk bars, and industrial process work. A total prohibition has been placed on the use of electric radiators. The use of electricity for floodlighting for sports and other meetings, and-for all outside under-veranda, sign, show-case outline, or decorative lighting is pro--1 the board received the full cooneration of consumers it should save more than the 600,000 units a week needed to comply with the instruction to keep. 5 per cent, below its allocation, said the supply engineer (Mr F. Hutchison).