POWER CUT-OFFS
RATIONING IN WELLINGTON (P.A.) WELLINGTON. March 21. The electricity controller has advised the Wellington'City Council’s electricity department that power must bo cut by 24 per cent, from to-day until further notice. The department instituted a series o. cut-offs over the whole city area for half an hour at a time twice daily staggered between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m, “Wellington does not accept the classification of ‘defaulter,’ ” said the manager of the electricity department, Mr. L. B Hutton. “The only defaulter’ which Wellington recognises is the Stale Hydro-Electrical Department in that it is unable to supply power to Wellington as contracted for.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21977, 22 March 1946, Page 4
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