ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 8

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

SdURGE OF IMPORT SUPPLY COMMENT BY BOARD CHAIRMAN (P.AO> : ;":'■'■" WELLINGTON. Oct. 13. "It is distressing to. get letters like this within one. week," stated the chairman fit' the Auckland Electric Power Board at a meeting to-day when the Electricity "Cqntroller. Mr F. T. M. Kissel, advised that previous instructions', regarding the purchase of electrical materials from the- United States had 'been cancelled. At a meeting of the board in committee last week the. original instructions' received. "The board was then advised that in future all electric supply, Authorities must obtain -their requirements in electrical equipment from, the United States, as the imports normally obtained from Great Britain were practically prohibited for the time being. . .• . ■-.■''■■ Theycontroller's letter received today stated that he had been asked by the Ministry of Supply, which had sponsored-the matter, that steps should be taken to withhold any action contemplated by* the authorities until the position was further clarified by the Ministry" of Supply. The conditions would remain as they were: before, with- the possible exception of the supply-of.copper cable. The '.general manager, Mr Bartley, said that he understood that manufacturers in Britain had advised their agents in New Zealand that they could continue to supply. The board would now make application for., import licences ,to procure its supplies of materials