TAURANGA INTERESTS
CHARGE FOR ELECTRICITY SUPPLY TO DEPARTMENT [from our own correspondent] TAURANGA, Thursday A letter from the district electrical engineer of the Public Works Department. Hamilton, was received at a meeting of the Tauranga Borough Council last evening with reference to the supply of electricity from tho council's hydro-electric works, and suggesting payment at the rate of £750 per annum, plus I.loth of a penny per unit, until the end of the present quarter, or perhaps longer. Tho council referred the matter to the Electricity Committee with power to negotiate with the Public Works Department. A request by relief workers for free electric light was refused. The Works Committee reported that trie I expenditure on road construction and . maintenance for the current year to date ; was £B5l. the estimates for tfle whole j year being £2400. A request by the Beautifying and Hor- J ticultural Society to plant puriri trees on j the western side of Cameron Road, fiom Wharf Street to Brown Street, was j granted. A motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. John G. Adams, a former Mayor of Tauranga.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 11
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189TAURANGA INTERESTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21247, 29 July 1932, Page 11
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