WAIPUKURAU AFFAIRS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 106, 18 April 1933, Page 10

WAIPUKURAU AFFAIRS

NEWS AND NOTES. (From Our Special Correspondent.; The funeral of little Galene Bouse field, who lost her life through a fall from a pony on Good Friday, took place at Waipukurau ou Sunday. There was a very' large number of mourners at the graveside, whilst the many beautiful wreaths and floral emblems testi fled to the extreme popularity of the deceased child and her sorrowing family. At the monthly meeting of the Central Hawke’s Bay Electric Power Board to be held on Friday next, Mr A. C. Holms, further to previous overtures in this direction, will move the following motion, of which he has given notice:—“That with a view to the finance committee reporting to the board thereon at the May meeting, tables bo prepared by the secretarymanager, showing the estimated effect on the year’s revenue, as compared with the increased savings on the 1932 33 estimates, and the expected interest or other savings for 1933-34, of reducing (a) the basic domestic lighting charge to 8d per unit, and (b) the business scale, (flat rate one) to 7d, thus re-establishing the corresponding relative difference of Id agreed upon in J 931, ns equitable between the graduated domestic, and the non-graduated business scales. Further, that the cost of placing business people on the same graduated scale as Domestic A lighting be shown. Also the cost of placing range users ou (a) the same footing

(graduated) as other domestic lighting consumers (84d and graduated reduc-'-tions to 3d, 2d and lid) or (b) same present flat rate as business folk (BJd).”