25,000 viewers
People in 25,000 Christchurch households got up early yesterday to watch the World Cup soccer. They joined thousands of others who were up at that time ordinarily. The chief engineer at the Municipal Electricity Department, Mr E. H. Mace, said yesterday that the city was using ’ 35 megawatts more power at 7 a.m. yesterday than the previous morning at the same time. The peak loading of 280 megawatts, which was reached at 7 a.m. yesterday, was not normally reached until 7.45 a.m., Mr Mace said.
He estimated there were an additional 25,000 households up and about with heaters and television sets on at this time. i. The situation on the roadsafter the soccer was “pretty difficult to judge” according ■ to Christchurch’s senior chief ’ traffic officer, Mr I. W. McLauchlan. Mr McLauehlan said there was no doubt that people would have remained < to? watch the end of the match,’ and that this would have affected the traffic situation immediately afterwards. “However, we did not ex T perience this at the Ministry,” he added.
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