STATE DEPARTMENT ACCUSED STILL OF GAMBLING ON WEATHER
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, June 24. “ It appears as if the State Hydroelectric Department is gambling on the weather still,” said the mayor, Mr E. H. Andrews, in outlining the opinion of the Emergency Electricity Committee of the City Council that there was no apparent justification for the decision of the Electricity Controller, Mr F. T. M. Kissel, to increase the power allocation to the South Island. “We have no knowledge of improved hydraulic conditions,” he said. “ From all our inquiries there appear to be none, and it seems as if the State Hydro-electric Department is simply gambling on. the weather still. Lake Coleridge is not showing any appreciable rise, and is in fact practically stationary, while much the same state of affairs prevails at Waitaki. The flow.there has varied between 4,400 and 4,700 cusacs, and it takes 3,000 eusacs to drive One generator. There are four generators at Waitaki.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26136, 25 June 1947, Page 4
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