'People Badly Let Down'
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day “The State Hydro-electric Department policy of frequently publishing pretty propaganda pictures of Karapiro is simply fooling the people,” said the general manager of the Waitemata Fower Board (Mr A. Main) referring to the electricity crisis today. “That station, even if fully completed by the winter, next year will not take care of the dammed-up load unless there is an immediate change in policy and control in the State Hydroelectric Department. “Unless the Government, as a matter of grave national importance, instate in urgency ample oil-burning auxiliary plant, the people will suffer drastic shortages of electricity until 1952 or 1953." Mr Main said the people had a right to abundance of electricity. They had been let down in a disastrous manner.
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Northern Advocate, 14 March 1947, Page 5
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