ELECTRIC POWER CHARGES

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 4

ELECTRIC POWER CHARGES

CONFERENCE! CRITICISM

DEPARTMENTAL VISITORS

(By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. At the conference of electric power boards and supply authorities which commenced to-uay, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P,., president, was' in the chair. The delegates included Mns J. McCombs, M.P., who is chairman of the electrical committees of the Christchurch City Council. The Rt. Hon. G. W Forbes and the Hon. J. Kitchener, Minister of Public Works, were at the opening, also Mr H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition. The conference passed a resolution asking the Government to reduce power charges. Mr Kissel, chief electrical engineer to the Public Works Department, ’aid there could be no increase in the deficiency. If any board could get a subside from any other Government fund he wished it luck, but the electricity account would not stand it-. Some criticism of the method adopted by the department in charging for electricity on the highest half-horn ly peak load in a quarter was expressed by the conference. It was decided to ask for charges to be based on the average of the three-monthly peaks, each monthly peak to he of 30 minutes’ duration.