POSSIBILITY OF SHORTAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 June 1943, Page 4

POSSIBILITY OF SHORTAGE

solth island electric POWER Christchurch, June 24. Considerable apprehension at the prospective serious shortage of power in the South Island was expressed in a resolution adopted by the regional conference of all members of the New Zealand Electric Power Boards’ and Supply Authorities’ Association in the South Island, which was held in Christchurch. The conference appointed a committee of 10 members, representing power boards and supply authorities, to review the power situation in general and to formulate proposals for obviating the difficulties confronting the industry This committee will co-operate with two similar committees in the North Island, The administrative control of the supply of power was the subject of another resolution passed by the conference. It stated that th e Conference strongly reaffirmed the recornnMsbdatibn made i n the 1965 Bulk Supply Report, that the administrative control of the generation of electric power' supply should be sb adjusted thart the supply authorities, as partners in the industry, should be given a definite status in regard to decisions affecting all policy matters and plant installations for future supply.