MUCH PROGRESS MADE
Electrical Development
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Waitaki Hydro, October 27.
“In New Zealand in spite of the recent acute industrial depression, the consumption of electricity for a variety of purposes has been significantly progressive and hopeful,” said Lord Bledisloe in the course of his address at the opening of the Waitaki hydro-electric power station this afternoon. “During the last nine years the number of consumers, which is now nearly 335,000, has more than doubled, the number of electric ranges has increased 25 times, that of electric water heaters has increased eight, times (and by 20 per cent, during the last four years), and that of electric milking machines live times (since 1928 by 60 per cent.). Last year 17.000 milking machines were driven by e’eetrie motors of approximately 28,000 aggregate horsepower.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 16
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133MUCH PROGRESS MADE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 16
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