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LOCAL BODY AMALGAMATION By Telegraph—Press Association ASHBURTON, December 21. On receipt of a copy of the Local Bodies Amalgamation Bill, the Ashburton Power Board to-day passed a resolution that the abolition of the board would not be in the best interests of the district as the work of the board and the county council was distinctly different. Referring to the suggestion that the power supply should be nationalised, the chairman, Mr E. F. Nicoll, said that the whole administrative charge of running the Ashburton Board amounted to about one-hundredth of a penny a unit. Office and board salaries amounted to about l-7000th of a penny a unit. Even if the office staff were to give their services for nothing the unit cost could not be noticeably reduced. All that much could not be saved by nationalisation. Pointing out that, the cost to rural consumers in Ashburton had been reduced from 3/1 to 1/7 a unit since 1927. He said he did not think that nationalisation could do a great deal better than that.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 8
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175NOT FAVOURED Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20607, 22 December 1936, Page 8
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