WATER POWER.
THE TIRELESS WORKER.
WHERE ENGLAND LAGS. London, Dec. 31. Mr. Lloyd George visited the water-power works at Conway Valley. In a speech he said he regretted that Britain was a most backward nation in the use of water-powe*. Germany had long used water-power for agricultural and other purposes. He pbinted to the Australian opportunities, and said the. secret of we future lay in the adequate ex ploitation of great natural resources, Cheaper power would revolutionise industry. Labour was demanding shorter hours, and therefore something must be done to increase production. There were willing hands in the clouds and they did hot demand an eight-hour day.. It was true that the clouds sometimes struck, but the dams were prepared as strike-breakers, with great reservoirs of stored water ,tq be used while, the clouds were striking.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 16, 2 January 1920, Page 5
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