LIGHT AND ROWER

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 22 August 1931, Page 5

LIGHT AND ROWER

CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION The efforts of the Feihling branch of tlie Manawatu-Oroua Electricity Consumers’ Association in establishing branches of (heir organisation throughout the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board area are meeting with a very .satisfactory and sympathetic response from the country people THE ORGANISATION The organising is ' being carried out with the assistance of lectures by Mr I’. ti. Guy. Feilding's representative oil the Power Board. Another branch of the Association was formed at Whakarongo on Wednesday night. Messrs D. Prince and 11. Prince itoiug elected respectively president and secretary. At the Mllsdn Settlement the Milson Progressive Association has taken up the work. INTERESTING QUESTIONS During the discussions that follow the lectures quite a number of complaints have been voiced amongst the most common being pilot wires, clock switches and split coils. Milking by electric motor is also considered too much of a luxury in these times of straightened finance, the majority of farmers expressing the opinion that their petrol engines were upwards of 20 per cent, cheaper. In the course of its activities the Association hopes to do a good deal towards alleviating the troubles and consequent dissatisfaction that exists amongst consumers. FOR AMALGAMATION The idea of one half of this area amalgamating with the WangauuiRangitikei Power Board and tlie other half with the Ilorowheima Board is finding a great deal of favour in tlie opinion of tiie country people generally