BOARD NOT SATISFIED
BROADCASTING AND POWER In reply to the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board's suggestion that in view of the shortage.of power broadcasting hours should be further reduced, the Minister of Works wrote to the last meeting of the Board that if relief could be assured by a further reduction in broadcasting hours he would have no hesitation in taking that step. The main considei'a(ion was the saving at peak hours ■ and the position was being closely watched by the Broadcasting Board. Mr. J. B. Yaldwyn considered it was the number of gallons of water saved at tiie lakes that mattered, not the peak hours. -|j Mr. 11. Green said that the Board • was still not satisfied, and it was decided that the Minister be again
communicated with, giving extracts from a report* by the manager-en-gineer, in which it. was stated, amongst other things, that if one radio set was in use twelve gallons of water were drawn out of the lakes in five minutes,
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Hutt News, Volume 20, Issue 4, 26 June 1946, Page 7
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