Power cost complaint
Refusing a request from the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation for powet used by the television transmitter at Sugarloaf to be charged at the cheaper industrial rate, rather than on the commercial bulk tariff, the Heathcote County Council last evening maintained that its policy was correct. The council’s electricity committee reported that on the Electricity Department’s classification, broadcasting was shown as a commercial use of power, and as the corporation was a commercial organisation, selling entertainment and advertising, it must come under the commercial rate.
The corporation had written complaining of the council’s “extremely high” charges for the Sugarloaf power, which it said, averaged 2.71 c a unit, compared with 1.4 c for the Mount Cargill television transmitter at Dunedin, and 0.91 c for the radio transmitters at Gebbies Pass.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33034, 29 September 1972, Page 2
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132Power cost complaint Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33034, 29 September 1972, Page 2
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