CHEAPER LIGHTING
SUGGESTION FOR NEEDY. PROPOSAL TURNED DOWN. ♦Per Press Association. —Cocyr’ght.) WELLINGTON, Friday, A suggestion by Mr S. Blackley that the Unemployment Board should issue concession tickets to destitute pcr j sons for the supply of electric- power at cost price met with a. mixed reception at a meeting of the Hutt Valley Power Board yesterday. Mr Blackley said the concession could easily be redeemed between the Public Works Department and the Board, While power was available in the national scheme it would pay the Government to do something to relieve distress, and at the same time help the Power Boards. There were 500 to (100 consumers disconnected in the Hutt district, so that there must bo thousands throughout the Dominion. “The reason why people are unable to pay their accounts is that wo charge too much for domestic lighting,said Mr L, 'Stewart in opposing the proposal. / . The Board took no action in the matter.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 3
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156CHEAPER LIGHTING Northern Advocate, 22 July 1933, Page 3
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