SAVING LIGHT AND POWER.
RESTRICnTONS IN X ENGLAND. ALONTJON, March 21. i .In the House of Gomnions the President of the Board ,p:f .Trade, Sir Albert Stanley, announced' a. scheme for restrictions, affecting all users < f gas and electricity, to five-sixths' vi that of the .corresponding quartei-is of 0 017. . The vijcheme is made applicable to,:«:3 o tn, ,ties south of a line from th'eVWash to Bristol. It ;. exaludes; munition v,-- jks,' l)6spital.% , and other- war services. The lias necessitaJed' „<jons'derc ble restrictions on London trams Acid vndergroiuid railways. It has abolished the illumination of , shop windows, closed restaurants at 9.30 y>.m., and all- places ,p*f!iiWiuscment at 10.50. A scheme /or Ireland is being consideiv.cl. ,-.' , Sir Albeft Stanley ha* foitci sied ti.e immediate cansell.itio'ii X a. very considerable number of passeme* trains, •jfle pointed i;.ut. that Germ- ivy on the outbreak of war rodukl : her train snjvjee by 55 per :iit, ;ii.*i tliere*- had been .considterable leduoti.ms s'nce v "ihe tram I wjays Ai some cases' being reduced 751 piei\ cent. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14572, 6 April 1918, Page 8
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