GENERATION OF POWER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20599, 25 June 1930, Page 12

GENERATION OF POWER.

CONTROL BY COMMISSION. REMOVAL FROM POLITICS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PUKEKOHE, Tuesday. Tho question whether the Dominion would not be better served in the generation and distribution of electric power by vesting the control of this phase of enterprise in a commission free from political influence was raised by the chairman,Mr. J Dean, at to-day's meeting of the Franklin Power Board. On his motion it was resolved to submit the following remit to the annual conference of power boards, to be held in Wellington next month: —" That,_ in opinion of this conference, the time has 1 arrived for tho functions of the electrical branch of the Public Work 3 Department to be placed under electric supply commissioners." In moving that the board approve tho remit for forwarding to the conference, Mr. Dean said the industry had become far too large for sectional control' by the Public Works Department, and, in any cas"B, electrical generation and control should not be a function of that department." Mr. J. B. McKinney, who seconded the motion, said that in the last three, years there had been throe different Ministers of Public Works, with some changes in policy. Continuity of policy would be better assured by vesting control in a commission, which could bo directly responsible to Parliament,