INSTRUCTIONS CANCELLED

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 15 October 1941, Page 5

INSTRUCTIONS CANCELLED

PURCHASE OF ELECTRICAL GEAR FROM U.S. Auckland, Oct. 13. "It is distressing to get letters like | this within one week.” said the chairman of the Auckland Electric Pow'er ! Board at a meeting to-day when the Electricity Controller. Mr F. T. M. Kissel advised that previous instructions on the purchase of electrical materials from the United States had now been cancelled. At a meeting of the board in committee last week the original instructions were received. The board was then advised that in future all electric I supply authorities must obtain their requirements in electrical equipment 1 from the United States as imports normally obtained from Britain were | practically prohibited for the time j being. The controller’s letter received today stated that he had bt**n asked by the Ministi yof Supply, hi hid lad sponsored the matter, that steps be taken to withhold any action con ; templated by the authorities till the position was further clarified by the Ministry of Supply. Conditions would ! remain as they were before, with the possible exception ot the supply of copper cable. The general manager. Mr R. H. Bartley, said he understood the manufacturers in Britain had advised their agents in New Zealand that they could continue to supply. The board would now make application for impoU licenses to procure its supplie? of materials —P.A.