POWER QUOTA STILL EXCEEDED
ELECTRICITY COMMITTEE’S REPORT More power than the allocation from the State Hydro-electric Department is still being used by the Municipal Electricity Department. The chairman of the electricity committee (Cr. G. Manning) reported at the City Council meeting last evening that the figures for the last two weeks were 4.1 per cent, and 5.5 per cent above allocation. Cr. Manning sai'd that storage increased from 184,300,000 units at. January 27 to 201,900,000 units at February 3, and then fell to 199,500,000 units at last week-end. The loss was caused by the need to discharge stored water during last week’s floods. Progress on the construction of the hydro-electric power works at Roxburgh was not encouraging, said Cr. Manning, who visited Roxburgh last week. While the excavation of the diversion channel was practically completed, the concreting of the spillway structure and discharge channel for it had not yet been started. This work had to be completed before the river could be diverted and the construction of the dam started.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26659, 19 February 1952, Page 8
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