CORRESPONDENCE

Grey River Argus, 16 April 1929, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

ARNOLD SCHEME. (To the Editor.) Sir, —A newspaper correspondent asks the local people t o wait for a hydro scheme until such t me as th** Government can be induced li h one here. Surely he in his own mind this means that wo could never expect cheaper electricity until we had, without that aid to prosperity, increased our population very largely indeed. How we could do it with dear power he does not attempt to say. Owing to ou r insular position, and our sparse present population, no Government would dream of a central scheme here, such as Waitaki or Coleridge. The correspondent in ques ion says “it is only a fair suggestion to make that having developed the East (’oast, they should turn their attention to the West Coast. J ’ How far would • e get if we relied for cheap elec.ricity upon a “suggt stion. ” As the Arnold scheme present no engineering difficulty, but is such that the consulting engineers are ready to instal it for the amount of their estimate, and as it is certain to give from the start a biggtr revenue yearly than its annual cost, I cannot convince myself these opposed to it have, to say the least, a very clear idea themselves what they mean by the good of tho district.—l am. e c, TOWN RATEPAYER.