POWER SUPPLY AT AUCKLAND

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25554, 23 July 1948, Page 8

POWER SUPPLY AT AUCKLAND

WAITEMATA RETAINING RESTRICTIONS "The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, July 22. “As my board has for some weeks been using more than its allowable quota of electricity, there is no possibility whatsoever of removing the present restrictions on shop window, community, and neon lighting,#’ said the chairman of the Waitemata _ Electric p £W^ BQ 2 r d (Mr L. E. Kerr-Taylor) are of a luxury nature'during 'a power shortage and the removal of these restrictions would only mean less hot water for house-

“I consider the recent statement by the chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board (Mr C. J. Lovegrove) that the power situation at the moment is very satisfactory was made without giving due consideration to all the facts ana to probable repercussions on that board and all other supply authorities in the North Island. ‘The new Electricity Controller (Mr A. E. Davenport) has taken over his duties with grave difficulties facing him in the next four or five years, and those will not be lightened by irresponsible statements. Further they are only hastening the day when the powers-that-be may justifiably resent being embarrassed by such and will nationalise the whole of the distribution side of the electricity supply system.’ J