CHARGES FOR GAS
REDUCTIONS RECOMMENDED
Reductions in the charges for the supply of gas to domestic consumers are recommended by the Gas Committee of the City Council in its report which will be submitted to the council on Monday evening. The present domestic rate is: Up to 1,600 cubic feet per month, 6s 3d per 1,000 cubic feet; excess eonsumption per month, 5s per 1,000 cubic feet. The committee recommends that the secondary rate of 5s per 1,000 cubic feet be reduced to 4s 2d per 1,000 cubic feet.
' A comparison with the charges for domestic supply in other centres discloses the following position:—Auckland: 10s per, 1,000 cubic feet per month for the first 500 cubic feet, reducing to 5s 4d at 180,000 cubic feet. Wellington: 6s 9d per 1,000 cubic feet per month up to 2,000 cubic feet, then 4s per 1,000 cubic feet. Christchurch: 7s 2d per 1,000 cubic feet up to -10,000 cubic feet, reducing to 5s 3d at 250,000 cubic feet, or 5s iper month commodity charge, plus 3s'7d per 1,000 cubic feet for all gas usefl. s
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Evening Star, Issue 25324, 4 November 1944, Page 9
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182CHARGES FOR GAS Evening Star, Issue 25324, 4 November 1944, Page 9
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