LOCAL CONTROL
SALE OF ELECTRICITY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WANGANUI, This Day.
Replying to criticism of local, control of the sale of electricity, in New Zealand, Mr. F. Purnell, chairman of the Wanganui-Rangitikei Electric Power Board, said today that since 1921 the output of Government stations had increased from 53,000,000 units to 793,000,000 units. Electricity already reached more than 90 per cent, of the people, while charges were 50 per cent, less than Canada's and much less than England's and those of other parts of the Empire.
The figures, Mr. Purnell claimed, were complete . evidence of the outstanding success of local control. The power boards' and supply authorities' share of the industry was now represented by an outlay investment P>£ ■£2(i,00p l ooa. / ' . - ,
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Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 October 1936, Page 10
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122LOCAL CONTROL Evening Post, Issue 86, 8 October 1936, Page 10
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