Electric Power Problem

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 125, 20 February 1941, Page 9

Electric Power Problem

Sir, —Of all the outrageous suggestions made recently, the possibility of a shortage of electric power just about beats the band. If the whole island is linked up, and in a country full ot coal —some companies, as I know to my cost, operating at n loss—the possible shortage of power must be due to the most amazing lack of foresight, and if the whole island is linked up, Why do prices vary? If current must be restricted, why pick on the hot. water service to be curtailed (or abolished?) as "causing less hardship"? To whom? Presumably to those who heat by other means. And will the power board pay the cost of installing other-means? Hot water service users have already been badly treated. Many of ns were compelled to install it —and were promised a continuous service and a drop in cost. The cost w.i< raised and the service is cut off for several hours a day. If this shortage of [lower is a serious possibility and not just, talk, it calls' for a national investigation into the whole system of electrical supply and coal-mining—ami a rapid change in methods to produce sufficient power.—l am. etc., EI.ECTRIP I’DWER. Feildiug, February 18.