LOCAL BODIES’ MERGER
ASHBURTON OPPOSITION. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] ASHBURTON, December 21. On receipt of a copy of the Local Bodies’ Amalgamation Bill, the Ashburton Power Board, to-day, passed a resolution that the abolition of the Board would not be in the best interest of the district, the work of the Board and County Council being distintcly different. Referring to the suggestion that the power supply be nationalised, the chairman, Mr. E. F. Nicol’, said the whole administrative charge of running the Ashburton Board amounted to about 100th of a penny a unit. The office and board salaries amounted to about l-7000th of a penny a unit. Even if the office staff were to give their services for nothing, the unit cost could not be noticeably reduced. All that much could not be saved by nationalisation. Pointing out that the cost to rural consumers in Ashburton had been reduced from 3,1 d to L7d a unit since 1927, he did not think that nationalisation could do a great real better than that.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 December 1936, Page 9
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