POWER SAVING
ALLOCATION EXCEEDED DOMESTIC CONSUMERS BLAMED “It is quite obvious that the domestic user is the offender,” said the city electrical engineer, Mr G. T. Edgar, when he was asked to comment yesterday on the amount of power consumed in Dunedin over the week-end. For the seven days ended at midnight on Sunday, Dunedin consumers used 5.6 per cent, more electricity than the allocation. • , . An excess was used most of last week, but on Friday a saving of 3.47 per cent, was made. Although most commercial users were not operating on Saturday and Sunday, the excess power consumed on these two days was 5.15 per cent, and 11.62, which brought the total excess for the week higher than the previous period. Mr Edgar said that people evidently had the mistaken idea that they, could relax their care when factories were not in operation, but this was not the case, and restrictions on domestic use applied just as strictly. He added that the department’s inspectors were no less vigilant at the week-end, and already a number of people had had the electricity supply to their water heaters cut off for an indefinite period.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26774, 18 May 1948, Page 6
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