STATIONS OVERLOADED

Evening Star, Issue 23915, 19 June 1941, Page 7

STATIONS OVERLOADED

NORTH ISLAND POWER SUPPLY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June .18. An urgent appeal to residents in the southern portion of the North Island to conserve electricity as much as possible while the cold weather lasted was made to-day by the Electricity Controller, Mr F. T. M. Kissel, who said that as a result of war conditions preventing the delivery of material all the generating stations were heavily overloaded. Because of the extremely ' cold weather in the southern part of the island, the stations were being called on to bear an even heavier burden than usual, Mr Kissel said, and considerable difficulty was being experienced in maintaining the supply. An appeal was, therefore, made to all persons to save as much electricity as possible. The alternation, he said, was rationing. Unless economies in the use of electricity were effected there was a grave danger of certain sections of the country having to be cut off in turn. When the southerly abated the abnormal load would cease, but there would still be need for economy in the use of electricity right throughout the North Island as a war measure.