‘Unfair Power Charge Rise
fWX Press Association) WELLINGTON, Oct 11 One major electric supply authority had announced its intention to increase electricity charges to householaers and others one month before the imposition of new bulk charges by the Government. Mid Mr N. E. Kirk (Opposition. Lyttelton) in the House of Representatives today Mr Kirk asked the Minifter of Electricity (Mr Gooaman) to bring power boards within the purview of the Commercial Trusts Act so that tu provision* designed to deal with profiteering and unreasonable practice could be applied to any power board that exploited unfairly the E2.7W.00G increase in power made by the Government from November 1.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29643, 13 October 1961, Page 14
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