The cost of firing at the Waingawa Meat Works is £17,000 per annum, plus the cost of handling and storing 8000 tons of coal. Of this amount 5000 tons were uaed for the purposes of supplying electric power. The coat of power at the meat works, therefore, with doal at £2 2s 6d per ton, is £10,625 per annum. It is considered by tbe directorate that by harnessing the water power of the district the cost eventually would be cut m half, though for the first year or two, till the whole of the Wairarapa wrb connected up and was utilising electric power, the cost might be increased.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 3
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