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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 5

Six hundred and two adults and 62 children were carried on Sunday in the morning anil afternoon special cars. The 9.50 p.m. car to Constable Street carried 137 passengers, the 10 p!ni. to Newtown carried J3S, and 49 travelled by tlio 10 E.ra. cai 1 from' Government Station to yall Bay. Tho Mayor is obtaining a statement from the City Klectrieal Department as to tho loss incurred in supplying small consumers with electricity. Mr. Wilford believ££ that tho figures, when produced, will show that the Department deals at a loss with a considerable number of small consumers. Using a homely illustration he pointed out that if a person bought, Say, .£SO worth of carpets . the cost of delivery was, by comparison, small and the seller could easily afford to bear it out Of his profit. If, on tho other hand, tho purchase wns small, tlio item, cost of delivery, assumed'proportionately a considerable importance. Similarly a small consumer of electricity may be supplied at a loss—although' he pays, twice as much per unit as those who use more of tho current—for the resnon that ill his case capital charges and expenses of upkeep bear a very high proportion to tho total cost of supply. It is worth considering, Mr. Wilford remarked, whether a considerable reduction in cost to small consumers might not work out advantageously. As things : now stand the consumers themselves ccohomise as far as possible, by the uso of small-voltago lainps and in other ways, but thoro arc attendant expenses which cannot bo cut down. Probably (ho department could considerably increase the amount ot' current supplied to small consumers without appreciably increasing its working expenses. "Blessings on your Heart, Yo Brew good Tea!" -Tho Public. DUSTIVS, LTD.. ' PALMERSTON NORTH, . And. WAKOANUI. . ! Leading Caterers of the Coast,—Ad?t,