SCORES OF NIAGARAS
LIBERAL LEADER ON WATER
POWER.
(BY TELEGRAPH.) (PROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)
MARTINBOROUGH, This Day. " Scores and scores of Niagaras, as far as power is concerned, are going to waste in New Zealand," declared Sir Joseph Ward, Leader of the Liberal Party, in advocating at Martinborough last night that the State should own and develop the hydro-electric power of the country. He held that the Government should order all the necessary machinery immediately, so that within three and a-half or four years at the most the great sources of powers weuld be at the disposal of the people throughout New Zealand. Upon an estimate he had seen recently, power in New Zealand would cost the people two and a-half times less than the power from Niagara cost the people drawing power from there. New Zealand could not be put upon the same plape industrially as America, but by failing to develop the sources of power lying at its doors the country was losing a great opportunity. All the railways of the country, he added, should be run within the next fifteen years by electric power.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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187SCORES OF NIAGARAS Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 7
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