“FOOLING PEOPLE ”
KARAPIRO PICTURES “PRETTY PROPAGANDA” AUXILIARY PLANT NEEDED (P.A.) AUCKLAND. March 13. "The State Hydro-Electric Department's policy of frequently publishing pretty propaganda pictures of Karapiro is simply fooling the people,” said the genera] manager of the Waitemata Power Board, Mr. A. Main, referring to the electricity crisis to-day, “That station, even it fully completed by the winter of next year, will not take care of the dammed-up load unless there is an immediate change of policy and control in the State Hydro-Electric Department, and unless the Government as a matter of grave national importance installs with urgency an ample oil-burning auxiliary plant the people will suffer drastic shortages of electricity until 1952 or 1953.” Mr. Main said the people had a right to an abundance of electricity. They had been let clown in a disastrous manner.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22280, 15 March 1947, Page 6
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