POWER SUPPLY
AUCKLAND AGREEMENT
C • Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Agreement has been reached between the Auckland Power Board and the Government concerning the supply of power to the province, consequent upon the failure of Arapuni. Tho annual payment to be inado to the board by the Government is calculated upon the basis of half the capital charges on the board's power station. When Arapuni is recommissioned the board's station will cease to operate and will become a standby plant incorporated with the national system of supply. When the Arapuni scheme failed the board decided to instal an additional 15,000 k.w. set, the cost of which will make tho total capital sunk in the plant approximately £600,000. The Government has now agreed to find half the capital charges of this amount.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 10
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131POWER SUPPLY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 10
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