POWER DEMAND IN M.E.D. AREA
FULL ALLOCATION NOT USED LAST WEEK The Municipal Electricity Department last week used 81.1 per cent of its allocation of 7,887.000 units, and on Thursday reached a peak of 93 per cent, of allocation, said the engineermanager (Mr G. H. Battersby), yesterday. The consumption for the week was 6,959,000 units. The week-end’s rain increased storage in the South Island power lakes, and at 9 a.m. yesterday 95,070,000 units were in reserve, compared with 93,730,000 units the day before. The weather in the back country is now clear again.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28016, 10 July 1956, Page 17
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