POWER IN PIMERSTON

Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 11

POWER IN PIMERSTON

NEGOfIATIONS WITH BOARD

•■" -(Special to .the "Eyerilriß Post.")v".; PALMERSTON N., liis Day. The time has ahnost. arrived for the signing ■ of:a vn3ew .agreement between the Palmerston North City Council and the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board iin the,matter of the supply of electricity to the city. : ," ' f . ''^ . Recently a sub-committee froim each body met, but it was obvious from the start: that the terms: of?one; would not be acceptable to the otiier.'.. The result- has. .been aii. appesJ. to. the .Public Works, Department, • jaiid '.yesterday the Power Board received' a letter from the, chief electrical engiiieec.lWr, F. ,T. M. Kissel, asking the board for the reasons : behind its ; demands on:. the city and to show that; the proposed increase in. charge was reasonable and justified. -'■' ■ The. cdmmunication'ipoihted out that the government's policy had always been /to. .endojirlge co-operation bet^een-'lurban;.an^. irticgl c'tJmmunities; and .theY success. of'; eiecirical supr ply in New Zealand bad-depended to a great extent on that co-operation.'The .Government's contracts with power boards, however, had ' always recognised that, there might be, special circumstances, where co;opera^ion was not possible >r- where,. .'departure.. fVpm a general policy, iriight ib.'e;;necessaryj>juid so tliey had" reserved -the rigtit to supi ■ply-direct to-certainVlocal.-a\ttfipritie's or consumers^; : > ;^.'J, ■ * ,i'-^' r''^ 'x-•■