POWER BOARD AREA

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 170, 18 July 1944, Page 4

POWER BOARD AREA

EXTENSION IS LIKELY STEP* TO INCLUDE WHOLE OF RANGITIKEI COUNTY. As the result of a reauest from the Rangitikei County Council, the Wanganui - Rangitikei Electric - power Board, at its monthly meeting yesterday, decided to take steps to* bring the whole of the Rangitikei County area under the control of the board. “It would be a decided advantage to extend the board’s area to Rangitikei,” said the chairman. Mr. F. Purnell. ‘The extension of the boundaries would simplify matters and would obviate the necessitv for having special Power Board rolls for the area.” If this was brought into force it would mean that all Rangitikei ratepayers would be entitled to vote for Power Board representation, and would be liable if the board ever found it necessary to collect a rate, said the secretary, Mr. G. A. Ammundsen. “■When the board was formed, the outer areas of the Rangitikei and Waitotara counties were a wilderness.” said the chairman. “There seemed to hp no possibility of getting power supplies to these districts and the board did not consider it necessary to incorporate the whole of the county areas. However, it has been complicated by the fact, that power is now taken into these areas,” he said. “The position is the same in my area” said Mr. W. Morrison (Waitotara). The Power Board’s service area had extended past the Waverlev Town Board, and into the Patea county, almost as far a« Patea. He intimated that he would later ask for a similar extension of the board’s northern boundary.