“In China and Japan, where practically the whole of the electric supply is irt the hands of private enterprise, public street lighting in certain cities is supplied free of charge," Naid Mr. A. Main, manager, at a recent meeting of the Wniiemata Electric Power Board. With an abundance of cheap power, he added, current was Liken to the tiny fishing villages, hamlets and farms in the most remote corners of Japan. “Certainly their system of low-tension reticulation in the distant villages knows no regulations, and would give our own engineers the horrors," said Mr. Main, “but' the- big thing is that it- gives the people the- supply. 1 ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 7
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