Electrification of Great Britain
BIG SCOTTISH SCHEME APPROVED British Official Wireless. Received Sunday, 7.0 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 14.
Tho Contral Electricity Board announces the adoption of the South Scotland electricity scheme, prepared . by the Electricity Commissioners. This is one of the area schemes under the 1926 Act to provide by the grid system a cheap electricity supply to towns and villages all over great Britain at a total estimated cost of £29,000,000. Only North Scotland now remains to be surveyed. 'The electricity supplies are to be derived from the great water power resources in Galloway and will be chiefly utilised in the neighbouring areas of Central Scotland and Northwest England, for which schemes have been already approved.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6629, 17 August 1931, Page 6
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