DOMINION NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1939, Page 3

DOMINION NEWS

EXHIBITION BUILDINGS. (Per Press Association— Copyright) WELLINGTON, April 28. It is expected that, within a month* the contractors will have completed the main building of the Exhibition. Tile contract for the British Pavilion has been let to Messrs Fletcher and Love, for over £BO,OOO, and a- stait has been made. Tne first Exhibition stands are already under way in the ! main buildings. POWER BOARD’S DEFICIT. GISBORNE, April 28. M ’,i Accounting for a deficit of £IBB/ in the past year’s operations of the Poverty Bay Power Board, the managing secretary, Mr R. P. Baigent, informed to-day’s Board meeting that the combined effect of operational costs and tariff reductions to consum- ' crs brought' them to a point where stability must be sought. In 18 months, he stated, the monthly bill of tv ages had risen iron. £1696 io £2279, and additional cost for the year in wages reached the equivalent of £7OOO. Two reductions in tariff rates were made during the' same period, estimated to cost the Board £9OOO in a full year’s operations: The revenue from elee^j tricity sales had actually increased-* That was due to an extensive load on lower rates. The Board liad to face the fact’that further reductions would have to be’very carefully considered in relatibn“'to' in which load additions; were; made. ( . . • ',• ■ boy KILLED WITH PEA-RIFLE. AUCKLAND, April 28. Tan Scott, aged 10 years, son of Mr and Mrs George Scott, of Manngateparu near Morrinsville, was fatallly shot at his home, this afternoon. Several hoys were playing in the yard, and lan Scott, was riding a bicycle. His elder brother, Frank, was handling a pea-rifle, which had been left in the house, and the weapon discharged, lan receiving the bullet in his , chest. He died half an hour later.