TRANSFER OF 13 CONSUMERS

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27637, 19 April 1955, Page 12

TRANSFER OF 13 CONSUMERS

Borough Council Plans “To Be Awkward” POWER BOARD WANTS TO TAKE ONLY 12 When the Local Government Commission sat in 1949 it amended the boundaries of the Kaiapoi Borough and one of the effects of the amendment was that 13 electricity consumers Knrtn r h r ro ? d u Were brou Kht into the North, Canterbury Electric Power Boards area but continued to be supcouncih h electrici ‘y th « borough

e ,P° wer board now wishes to take over the supply of electricity to 12 of the consumers, but is reluctant to run out an additional half a mile of reticuF n”> r°„.XV, ppl < thirteenth, Mr « »T k S° ugh ’ who lives on the corner o£ ? or ™. road and the Pines Beach road The council on the other hand to lose 13 profitable conu hop ,‘, ng that by insisting ter wnTbc dropped.° r n ° ne the mata V r ning c °unci! considered a . Ir ? l V the engineer-secretary of the board (Mr A. Buckingham) conthat'u g ‘he matter, and then decided that it would stand by its original intention to allow the'change only "f all consumers were taken over 7 I can certainly confirm my verbal assurance that the board intends to take over the supply of power to all residents on the east of the North road , above the Pines Beach road cortex' suckingham5 uckingham in his lettaking over of supply to hl t ca , , l nGt for technical reasons fore d tB r .‘ he Sam . e line and. therefore at the same time as for other tn S isv n i S fu ’’ ther north. The supply j mus * come from another ection and we first wish to find out what additional building is likelv to We e d D o a int?nrf r t the ? eaCh ro a d corner. We do intend to give this supply at an early date, but it just cannot be done at the same date as for the other residents further north. I trust thlt the position is now made clear so that we can go ahead with our arrangeQimstion°" supplying the consumers in

J,, a m inehnen to the view that we rir re, ax «n this question." “Th c .. t » h H-m ay nT (Mr N ' E - K' r k’. These difficulties are of the power board s own making.” M L K j rk said that the board’s efforts would be better dire'-ted elsewhere in its area rather than to an area which was already reticulated. After the meeting. Mr Kirk said that the council honed “that if it was awkward the board would drop the whole matter.”

“They are profitable ratepayers and the borough wants them,” he said.