HEAVY DEMANDS ON ELECTRICITY COMPEL ECONOMICAL USE
No further power cuts have been imposed in the Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board's district since the emergency period earlier in the week, but the engineer, Mr. H. Webb, stressed yesterday that electricity must be conserved. One effort to bring about reduced consumption is the restriction pieced on hot water services on farms.
“We have had n 0 further trouble, but we have had warnings that we must keep our power consumption down,” said Mr. Webb. “Otherwise, more cuts will be introduced.”
Urging people to conserve electricity as much as possible, Mr. Webb said that the demands on power were heavy . Where time-switch controls were installed, hot water services on farms and in homes were being restricted.
Where these services wer e previously oft for four hours each day, they are now being switched off for 10 hours daily. "People can have a hot bath and a cold meal, or a hot meal and a lukewarm bath, but they can’t have both,” Mr. Webb added. “In England many people have neither."
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 March 1947, Page 4
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