Mayor hopes M.E.D. will absorb rises
The Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. G. Hay) said again yesterday that he hoped the Municipal Electricity Department could absorb all or part of next year’s 6 per cent bulk power tariff rise. He tald the City Council’s public utilities committee that present information — from the financial year’s first six months — indicated that something might be done to soften earlier big power cost rises for consumers. The South Island Local Bodies’ Association is scheduled to meet the Minister of Energy (Mr Birch) in mid-December over its plea for a 25 per cent cut in power bills for
all South Island consumers. Mr Birch has told the council he does not have time to visit Christchurch soo'n to discuss the plight of people faced with high bills, “I am sure that if there was a by-election or General Election, they would be here,” said Cr R. Lester, "and we would have to fight to get through them or past them.” Cr Mollie Clark said New Zealanders did not have to look overseas for “pirates” who charged unrealistic prices for energy. “We have got them in our ctwn fair land,” she said.
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