POWER SUPPLY
RETICULATION OF OUTLYING AREAS It will be a considerable time before subsidies are available for the reticulation of electricity in certain parts of the Dunedin City Council’s supply area, states the report of the Electricity Committee, which will come before a meeting of the council on Monday night. The council is at present making a contribution of 0.25 per cent, of its revenue to subsidise half the cost of reticulation in sparselysettled areas, the consumer providing the balance of 7.5 per cent, a year over a seven-year period. The committee, the report states, has accordingly re-considered its present policy, which requires an annual guarantee of 15 per cent, over a sevenyear period from consumers in new areas and has agreed to reticulate the areas at present requesting supply on the basis of a guarantee of 10 per cent, a year for 10 years. The city electrical engineer, Mr G. T. Edgar, has been authorised to negotiate for an extension of supply on this basis to areas at Otakou and Taiaroa Head; Papanui Inlet, Hooper’s Inlet, and Cape Saunders; and Hayward Point and Aramoana.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26451, 3 May 1947, Page 2
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185POWER SUPPLY Otago Daily Times, Issue 26451, 3 May 1947, Page 2
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