ELECTRIC CURRENT
CITX PRICE BAISED. The City Council decided last evening that on and atfer Octolier 1 the charge per -unit for direct current power, supplied from the tramway power-house, vill bo increased by one-Jialfpenuy per -unit, owing to tho large increase in tlie cost of generation. . . The Mayor said it -was a compliment to the city that it had got along during three years of war without increasing charges for services. Now the time Tiad como when tho increase proposed had to bo made. , Councillor MTtenzie mentioned that the increase concerned power only, and not domestic heating. The Mayct said coal and everything else had gone-up. If you even buy a rako or a spade, he added, you have to pny an increased price for it.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3184, 7 September 1917, Page 4
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127ELECTRIC CURRENT Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3184, 7 September 1917, Page 4
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