BLACK OUT!
CANDLES TiST VICTORIA
TOWNSHIP
RESIDENTS INDIGNANT
Victoria Township residents “enjoyed” Saturday night by candlelight and some indignant protests regarding tho delay in restoring power were voiced yesterday. It 1 appears that, about 5 o’clock on Friday evening, all lights linked up with the circuit from Grey street to Victoria Township were suddenly reduced to .half-voltage. That state of affairs ruled throughout Friday night and all day Saturday, but worse followed on Saturday night, when the power failed completely and remained off until 10 a.m. yesterday. Candles and oil lamps were hastily requisitioned, in many ' cases after long anxious waiting for tho return of electric power, and with memories of pioneer days the residents resumed their interrupted pursuits.
It is understood that the cause of tho trouble was tho burning out of a transformer, but: even such a bad fault as' that) Victoria Township residents consider, • should not have entailed such a long interruption.
Owing to an earth fault developing in Gladstone Read',:) near the Tyre -Surgery, d.c; supply in blip" town was shut off from'7 to 8.30 'last evening.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11956, 29 May 1933, Page 5
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181BLACK OUT! Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11956, 29 May 1933, Page 5
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