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SYDNEY FACES BLACKOUTS POWER STATION BREAKDOWN Rec. 7 p.m. SYDNEY, Mar. 28. The city is expected to have some of its worst black-outs this week, as one of the four main boilers in the Bunnerong power station is choked with slag and is out of commission. This will mean a 13 per cent, cut in power output, which is already inadequate. All the authorities predict that this will be the worst winter for power shortages in many years. Thirty-one areas in Svdnev and blacked out today, and employers believe that the only way industry can function is by the'introduction of night shifts, as was done recently in Perth. Some opposition from unions is expected. but the move is regarded as the only way to avoid extensive unemployment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27042, 29 March 1949, Page 5
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