CASHMERE HOSPITAL
Sir,—The estimates for heating installations for the Cashmere hospital (“The Press,” March 25) show some surprising figures; electricity costs annually about 50 per cent. 1 more than coal. But these figures for electric heating must include income tax, payable by the State Hydro-electric Department, which would not be payable by the Hospital Board, if that board owned its own hydro-electric station. They also allow for bringing power from instead of using the cheapest power that could be developed in North Canterbury; and they also allow for a future rise in the cost of hydro-electric power. Nobody knows what future increases there may be in the cost of coal. A popular explanation of the high cost of electric heating is that low-cost electricity cannot be made available to North Island hospitals, and therefore will not be permitted here. Can there be no exemptions from tlj.e policy of uniform price for electric power?—Yours, etc., ARTHUR LUSH. March 25, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27308, 26 March 1954, Page 3
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