POWER BOARD CASE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 11

POWER BOARD CASE

PRESENTATION OF EVIDENCE EXPLANATION BY MR. MAIN A reply to a resolution of the Auckland Electric-Power Board dissociating itself from evidence placed before the Tariff Commission on behalf of the Power Boards' Association, was made at a meeting of the Waitemata Electric-Power Board yesterday by the manager, Mr. A. Main, who had given the evidence. " The Auckland board's motion will probably bo found to have little significance," stated Mr. Main. It was difficult to follow tho board's reasoning, as for soino time past it had been closely following tho policy of tho Waitemata board. The particular evidence to which tho board objected had not been indicated. "I was careful to see that practically the whole of my evidence coincided with that tendered by this board to the Minister of Customs last year," continued Mr. Main. The evidence had been supported then by the president of tho Electric Power Boards' Association, and 20 of the largest power boards trading in electrical appliances. As the Auckland Board was not then concerned in a trading policy in connection with such appliances, it was not invited to bo associated. Mr. Main said that tho association had not asked any individual board to take up the matter after the commission had come to Auckland, as the chairman of the Auckland board seemed to think, but the officials were deputed to appear in Wellington before the commission commenced its Auckland sitting. As he had been unable to travel to Wellington, it bad been agreed that separate evidence should be given in Auckland and Wellington respectively.