SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 256, 28 September 1932, Page 6

SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY.

POAVER BOARD’S APPEAL. INTERPRETATION OF ACT. Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Sept. 28. The Court of Appeal is to-day considering an appeal by the Taranaki Electric Power Board from the judgment of Mr Justice MacGregor in an uction brought by the appellant board against the New Plymouth Borough Council for the interpretation of Section 282 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920. The section requiring interpretation states: “A council, having established electric light works for the purpose of lighting streets and public places of a borough and of supplying electricity to the inhabitants of a borough, may contract with a local authority of any adjoining district to supply electricity to such local authority, upon such terms as may lie mutually agreed upon.” The trial Judge held that the boroughs of Inglewood and AVaitara were adjoining districts to the New Plymouth Borough within the meaning of Section 282 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and the supply of electricity, by the respondent Borough Council to the Inglewood and AA 7aitara boroughs was therefore within tine power conferred by that section. The plaintiff Power Board now appeals from the decision.