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 Auckland, including the supply to the tramways, in a single Power Station. The tramways had, in the previous year, become the property of the Council, and it was considered more efficient to have a single Power Station than to continue supplying the Tramways Department separately from its own Power Station in Hobson Street.

The Tramways Department Power Station, Hobson Street, was, in certain respects, out of date, and was unfavourably situated for extension. It was already overtaxed, and for over six years had been receiving help from the City Council Power Station at King's Wharf.

It was decided to convert the Hobson Street Power Station into a sub-station and establish a further tramway sub-station at Kingsland. These extensions involved a capital expenditure of £500,000.

The capital expenditure on the King's Wharf Power Station, and on reticulation, up to 31st March, 1921, was £506,000.

Two sub-stations are supplied from King's Wharf—one in Epsom, which was started in 1915, and one at Grey Lynn, started in 1920.

About ten miles of streets are now lit by electricity, and the Council contemplates considerable extensions of its street lighting system.

The total number of units sold for the year ended 31st March, 1921, was 10,496,060, of this, 3,552,333