ELECTRIC CURRENT
FROM LAKE COLERIDGE
(United Press Association)
CHRISTCHURCH April 9. Electric current from Lake Coleridge tyas turned on. for the first time at Leeston, and Springston Soptli on Saturday night. The ceremony was performed by Sir R. Heaton Hhodes. Refei-ring (o hydro-electric development throughout Now Zealand, tlifii said that the Government had no intention of making any cash expenditure, but it realised that electricity must be developed, and it meant to develop the schemes as quickly as. possible. Mr A. G. Henderson, president of the Canterbury Progress League, said that in no part of the world so sparsely populated as Canterbury was there a' better or cheaper supply of electricity. ;That was due in large measure to successive Governments end to the present Minister of Public ■Works and his colleagues.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 April 1922, Page 5
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