NO SUBSIDY
PRIVATE POWER PLANT
RURAL RETICULATION MINISTER MAKES REPLY That the Dominion council request that some subsidy or special grant be authorised for the extension of privately generated and owned power lines especially *in the Coromandel county and other areas where Government power was not available was the text of a remit dealt with at the meeting in Thames recently of the Northern Thames sub-province of Federated Farmers. The request had been-sent on to the Minister of Works, who • had replied as follows:— “I would inform you that the chairman of the Coromandel County Council recently discussed with me the practicability of the area being supplied with Government power through the Thames Valley Electric-Power Board. It would not be possible for relief to be given on account of the high cost of Diesel generated' power and the operations of the two private companies distributing power in the area did not therefore fall within the stope of the rural retiAilation scheme. “The county council has, therefore, ■been afeked to supply an estimate of the load l offering through the county and when this has been received the matter- will be further considered,” concluded the Minister.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4368, 13 December 1950, Page 8
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195NO SUBSIDY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 60, Issue 4368, 13 December 1950, Page 8
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