The Power Board

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7191, 24 June 1933, Page 6

The Power Board

To the Editor. .Sir, —One cannot help noticing' the Kiwitea County Council's “iniquitous, dastardly and scandalous" criticism oi the Power Board's intention to strike a rate, is published on Inc rroni page oi : your to-day's issue, while the Munawatu County Council's approval of same is relegated to a back page, but let ns hope this is purely fortuitous. With regard to Councillor flair’s complaint about water heaters never being hot, may I suggest that he has the packing round the heater wiiieli 1 expect ho will lind is nothing more than brown paper, and also has the element taken out and cleaned every few months, then ho will End a great improvement. The solution of this town v. country issue is that one price should bo charged for electricity throughout the whole length and breadth of New Zealand, and the prolit going to reducing the price and gradually extending the service to those parts that arc unable at present to bcnclit. In the collection of cream, dairy factories charge suppliers living far from the factory the same as suppliers living near and X have never heard the latter complain. Would that Palmerston might if actuated by the same co-opera-tive spirit.—l am, etc., “C.W.T." 22/0/113.