Electricity charges
Sir, —I agree with P. S. King (February 19) that it io extremely difficult in walking backwards uphill but it would be more souldestroying if we did it with all the issues your correspondent lists. I am not saying that injustices only occur in certain areas or that some unju-st issues are more important than others but that our group is prepared to tackle the decision-makers on at least one issue which is tak-
ing away the quality of family and community life. Electricity is a natural resource belonging to all New Zealanders, yet we are being made to beg for it. It is a national shame that while we have a surplus, families are made to suffer because of the exorbitant prices charged. We are saying to the de-cision-makers that family life must come before balancing the books and the families in our group have decided that paying 75 per cent is a just and fair price for the electricity we use.—Yours, etc., M. G. McNABB. North-east Christchurch Energy Group. February 19, 1980.
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