BUSINESS AND DOMESTIC
"Rate F" makes a broad comparison between present and future business and domestic accounts. He considers that the large business houses consuming, say, 1100 units a month, would make a saving of nearly 50 per cent., while the best the ordinary domestic user could hope for is a saving of 3£ per cent., and in many cases he will have to pay up to 15 per cent, increase. "I do not dispute that reductions were overdue to the commercial rates, but why at the expense of the domestic consumer?" he continues. "From these figures. I submit it is possible to assert that the wage-earner, who can least afford it. is being exploited for the benefit of a few large business houses. Doubtless this was never the intention of the board. Will not the general manager, therefore, revise the domestic rate to a more reasonable scale?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 12
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148BUSINESS AND DOMESTIC Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 12
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