BOARDS DEFENDED
Mr. W. A. Sheat (National, Patea) said he agreed that every effort should be made to extend electric power to all rural areas, and he believed it could be done. The portion of New Zealand without electricity was so small that it should be possible for the system to bear the cost of extension to those who had gone without for so many years. It was vitally necessary that people be induced to go into the remote localities and so relieve congestion and rehabilitate much of the second-class land that had gone out of production. He could not agree \v-ith Mr. Meachen, however, that electric power boards should be done without. That suggested centralisation, and he thought the main reason for the successful development of electricity supply lay in the fact that it had been so decentralised. If the fatal error of centralising control were committed it would cause endless dissatisfaction everywhere. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 57, 5 September 1945, Page 4
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