POWER ACROSS COOK STRAIT
Sir, —Surely the South Island is not going to take this sitting down. Already we are being told over the air and through the newspapers to save power, and even last Sunday we had a power cut. What will the position be if our electricity is taken to the North Island? They will want our island next! I thought with a southernborn Prime Minister we would have been protected. How soon they lose . sight of us! Wake up. South Island. I Why save power just for it to be piped over the straits?—Yours, etc., MAINLANDER. March 7, 1956. [At the earliest it will be some years before a cable can be laid across Cook Strait. Power saved in the South Island now will be used by South Islanders, and no-one else, during the winter.—Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27911, 7 March 1956, Page 7
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