Co-operative Consumers
“It is possible to say that our consumers have given us real co-opera-tion and that when the crisis was on they cut their power consumption to the bone," said the chairman of the Povprtv Pav Electric-Power Board. Mr F. R. Ball, at yesterday’s meeting. “There is no doubt that that co-opera-tion staved off the threat of a break in our simoly. and we got through the worst cold weather of the winter without any cuts.” Members of the boprd commented that this district had been fortunate in escaping the cuts in power supply which other areas had to suffer. “People don t know how lucky they have been, said Mr. B. J. Holdswprth in this connection. The managing-secretary, Mr. R. P. Baigent, stated that the Poverty Bay board had figured on the “defaulters’ list” onlv once this year, ns a result of exceeding the allowable increase in load. In all but that one week the board had been able to show a good margin of saving.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21753, 30 June 1945, Page 4
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