FINE OF TWELVE POUNDS.
Per Press Association. TE AROHA, Sept. 16. On a charge of fraudulently extracting electricity from tho Thames Valley Power Board’s supply, Charles F. Stratton, a farmer, of Waitakaruru, was fined £l2 by Air Platts, S.AI, Defendant bridged a switch at a cowshed, obtaining a supply of electricity for a water heater during the milking hours. 11. Sprague, manager of the board, stated that the low flat rate of £3 per annum for water heaters was conditional on the supply being cut off during the milking hours, and by bridging tho swituh electricity worth about £l2 had been obtained. The practice of interfering with switches meant a loss of thousands of pounds annually and the offences were difficult to detect. • The Alagistrate intimated that, if fines wero insufficient, terms of imprisonment would be imposed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 7
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137FINE OF TWELVE POUNDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 246, 16 September 1932, Page 7
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