‘Callous’ price rise
The justification of a 9 per cent rise in the bulk electricity tariff is “unbelievable and callous,” said the social welfare spokesman for Social Credit, Mr Gary Clover, recently He said that Christchurch needed a 25 per • cent across-the-board concession to boost South Island industry, create jobs, and give Christchurch people the incentive to use electric heating and domestic appliances. “The 9 per cent increase due next month will con-
demn Christchurch • consumers to a miserable and. bitter election-year winter of more closed factories, more lay-offs, electric heaters too expensive to use. and even higher' levels of acrid; healthdamaging levels of smog,” he said. A n across-the-board concession would help industry, absorb the unemployed in small-scale, labour-intensive industries, ' and “go a long way” to solve smog induced health problems, Mr Clover said.
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