CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 8

CORRESPONDENCE.

ELECTRIC POWER BOARD. ' (To the Editor.) Sir,—Ct. Anderson now endeavors to belittle the powers of the Stratford license, despite the fact that he could see impossibilities arising from other licenses 1 deny that the Stratford license is inoperative. It is quite in order. The “area of supply” is stated as the Borough and County of Stratford, and repeat that power boards are specifically debarred from supplying current to consumers within any such area of supply without the consent of the licensee. The position is therefore that the power board proposed by the, Eltham Committee could not supply current to consumers in the Stratford County without the consent of the Borough Council It is I not reasonable or just that Stratford | ratepayers should be asked to support the formation of a board which could not supply Stratford consumers but could supply Elthain consumers. Cr. Anderson now admits knowledge of a license over Stratford County, but he avoids explanation of his omission to mention the. same at the council meeting. He mentioned other licenses which c?;ist over other areas and used them as an argument against the Progress League’s proposals. Will Cr. Anderson frankly state his reason for that omis- ‘ Did he think that mention -of

the Stratford license would jeopardize the Eltham Committee’s proposals.—l am, etc., J. B. RICHARDS. Stratford, June 8.