SOUTHLAND POWER SCHEME
LINKING UP WITH WAITAKi CONCESSIONS FOR OLD-AGE PENSIONERS [Pee United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 12. An early linking-up of the Southland power scheme with the Waitaki generating station was foreshadowed by th< Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) this afternoon. . Plans are well surveys of the _ route of th« high tension lines are in hand) and tenders for the pples have been let. Mr Semple announced that for th« nine months of this financiahyear th< net revenue from electricity in Southland had increased, by £8,300, aftei allowing for the abolition of metei rents and the reduction of 7d units it 6id- ' “By way of affording further con. cession,said the Minister, “ I hav< arranged that old-age pensioners are_ to receive a supply on the basis of paying for what they use. They are not to b< required to pay any yearly guarantee, The same privilege is to be extended to all schools and piiblic halls whicll can be served from existing lines. •
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Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 9
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166SOUTHLAND POWER SCHEME Evening Star, Issue 22572, 13 February 1937, Page 9
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