HYDRO-ELECTRIC SUPPLY
UNSATISFIED DEMAND IN CHRISTCHURCH. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 18. The City Council, at. its meeting tonight, decided, in view of the Public Works Department being unable to cope with the council’s increased demands for electricity during the next two years on account of its Utter inability to obtain the necessary plant to extend the Lake Coleridge generating station to install a producer gas standby plant at a cost of several thousand pounds. The department has been asked to pay a share of the cost, seeing that the outlay is necessitated owing to its being unable to fulfil its contract to supply power.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 6
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104HYDRO-ELECTRIC SUPPLY New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 6
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