POWER BOARDS’ CONFERENCE
REQUESTS TO GOVERNMENT DOMINION AWARD WANTED [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. At the conference to-day of the Electric Power Boards' and Supply Authorities’ Association of New Zealand, it was decided to ask the Government to reduce bulk supply charges, to establish a special fund from which the loan requirements of local bodies could be met at the statutory rate of interest and to provide legislation making it possible for power boards to raise, without a poll of ratepayers, loans for advances to consumers. By 61 votes to 15 it was decided that a Dominion award be sought for employees of all board authorities. Opposition to this remit came trom representatives of boards chiefly in Canterbury and Taranaki, who nave already secured district awards.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 246, 16 October 1937, Page 8
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