WHERE DOMINION LEADS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 8

WHERE DOMINION LEADS

ELECTRICITY AND TELEPHONES SOME COMPARISONS Oil lamps are still a common means of illumination in the villages of England, and the contrast with the extensive hydro-electric development in New Zealand was remarked upon yesterday to a “Dominion" representative by Lord Liverpool, who arrived in Wellington by the Remuera from London. Lord Liverpool said hydro-electricity was developing slowly in England, and in that respect New Zealand and the Dominions were far ahead of the Old Country. He supposed it was largely because a new country started with new machinery, which tended toward more rapid development. There were big schemes under consideration in England, which would provide the small villages with electric light and power. These schemes would embrace the whole of England and ultimately the United Kingdom, but they were slow in coming to fruition. It was intended to carry all the power lines overhead instead of underground. Lord Liverpool remarked that the Dominions were also considerably in advance of England with regard to their telephone services.