STATE CONTROL ADVOCATED
“As local power boards and supply departments have served their purpose in the pioneering days they should be abolished and their properties become the property of the State,” Mr K. D. Mcllraith, an Ashburton businessman, told the Commission of Inquiry into the Distribution of Electricity yesterday. Mr Mcllraith’s reasons for advocating State control of the retail supply of electricity were the differences in tariff throughout the country.
Electricity was a State monopoly, said Mr Mcllraith, and there should be a universal rate of charges throughout the country.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 7
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