Electrical Centre
Taking as a basis the year 1956—which was not restricted—the South Island growth to last March has been 38 per cent in load and 36 per cent, in units used. Christchurch in the same period has grown 24 per cent, in load and 37 per cent in units used.
highly - technical electronics centre and training school of the Air Force, where war-time radar was built secretly and where now is centred the complex “brains” of New Zealand’s Canberra jet bomber force; and an advanced industrial development department cooperating with the electrical engineering faculty of Canterbury University.
In fact, the bulk of elec* trical manufacture in Christ* church is electrical cables and wiring materials, and the majority of the companies produring supply their goods on a national basis. The manufacture of electrical appliances in New Zealand is claimed to have been commenced in Christchurch. This was in 1933.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29239, 24 June 1960, Page 9
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149Electrical Centre Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29239, 24 June 1960, Page 9
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