POWER RATIONING
CHANGES SOUGHT IN
CONTROL ORDER
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 23. Suggested amendments to the 1948 Electricity Control Order have been made by the Waitemata Electric Power Board in a letter to the general manager of the State Hydro-electric Department (Mr A. E. Davenport). The letter written by the board’s engineer (Mr C. M. Gray) was considered at a meeting to-day and approved by the board.
It was suggested that the order should be amended to make it compulsory for all supply authorities to adopt the individual quota system of rationing, that quotas should be fixed on a uniform basis for the whole of the North Island, that the control order should provide for penalties for excess consumption, and that authority should be given in the control order for supply authorities to require industrial consumers who wish to use substantial additional blocks of power to install an agreed percentage of standby plant. The letter was written in answer to one received from Mr Davenport, who said that if electric supply authorities considered it necessary for the control order to be amended so as to enable the electricity load to be restricted and allocations adhered to, he was prepared to have the necessary amendments made.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 3
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POWER RATIONING
Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26560, 24 October 1951, Page 3
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