LOWER HUTT GASWORKS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 61, 9 September 1921, Page 4

LOWER HUTT GASWORKS

TO THE EDITOR; Sir,—As an important section of our borough ratepayers and residents has petitioned the council against the use of a selected site for gasworks, the time is opportune" to reopen tho question of^such an enterprise. Our council was agreeable to the joint ownership and control of the Petone Gasworks, but the Petono council declined that proposal. The latter 'body has since become penitent, and is now agreeable to the joint ownership. As a. Lower , Hutt ratepayer. -I consider the using- of £64,000 for another gasworks for tha valley a serious waste. The reticulation of the two boroughs for hydro-elec-tric power that the Government will cupL ply within two years/ will reduce b»-50 per cent, the present consumption of gas. The Potone Gasworks under joint ownership will be modernised by the expenditure of £25,000, and will manufacture sufficient gas for all purposes for many years to come. As the Petone council has developed a, reasoning attitude, the prestige of our council will not be impugned, nor our Mayor's efforts discredited. Tho financial saving to our borough. will be in tho region of £50,000. and 'preclude the necessity of increasing the present heavy rates. —I am, etc., RATEPAYER.