POWER DISPUTE

Evening Star, Issue 22070, 2 July 1935, Page 14

POWER DISPUTE

BOARD ORDERED TO SUPPLY CITY SUCCESSFUL INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS fP*jt United Press Association.! WELLINGTON, July 1., Before Mr Justice' Johnston in Chambers at tile Supremo Court this afternoon,. H. R. Cooper, on behalf of the Palmerston North City Council, applied for an injunction to force the Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board to supply the council with electricity. The injunction was granted, and the board was forthwith ordered to continue to supply power. The statement of claim set out that any interruption in the supply of electrical energy by the Power Board to the city would cause irreparable injury to the plaintiff city and its inhabitants. The plaintiff therefore prayed that the board should bo restrained by an injunction or order of the conrt ; from refusing to sell and discontinuing to supply to the city such electrical energy as ■ the city should notify the defendant board that it required at the price and on the conditions set out in the agreement dated February 17, 1931. or at such other price as the court deemed to bo reasonable. POWER RESTORED. fP ER United Press Association.! PALMERSTON N., July 1. As a result of the Supreme Court granting the City Council an interim ini unction, Mangahao power was restored to the city shortly after 3 o’clock this nfternoom The city’s own generating plant kept essential consumers and the residential areas supplied during the greater part of the time the bulk power was off. The Palmerston North City Council and the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board were thus for the second time within, a year plaintiff and defendant respectively in injunction suits. The previous action, which was on the matter of a special rate levied by the board over the city area, was won by the City Council.