CAUGHT NAPPING.
Tj' VER SINCE the first State power station was completed in 1915 .at Lake Coleridge, supply has lagged far behind demand throughout New Zealand. Lake Coleridge started with -1500 kilowatts, but its 34,500-kilowatt capacity to-day overtaxes the normal supply of the lake. The Maugaliao station in the North Island has never kept pace with the demand, and a very much more active policy should have been pursued in relation to all power stations and sources of supply. It is true that the demand has fallen away appreciably during the depression, a fact which has saved the Government’s face in regard to the curtailment of work at Waitaki, but urgency can be pleaded with ample justification for every undertaking of this nature, and it is to be hoped that the Government will err on the generous side where the employment of labour can be directed into such highly profitable channels.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 829, 1 August 1933, Page 6
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