POWER SHORTAGE
Sir, —With a crisis in the shortage of electric current already upon us, why does the Municipal Electricity Department allow wastage of current? Surely it has the power to make the business community do its part in saving current, especially at week-ends, by ordering a cut-off of all these advertising lights from Saturday to Monday morning?—Yours, etc., OLD INHABITANT.
Redcliffs, February 21, 1949. [“Power saving cannot yet be ac-> cumulated because all the excess rainfall cannot at this stage be stored. As soon as current-saving will result in power storage, the council will itself give a lead and appeal to others to co-operate,” said the general manager of the M.E.D. (Mr E. Hitchcock) in reply to this letter.]
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 7
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