25 MAY 1929, Page 33

FOREIGN COMPETITION.

Although the Electricity (Supply) Act was only passed in 1926, the Electricity Board set up under that Act seems to have lost no time in pushing forward the schemes for supplying electrical power, being, I imagine, moved thereto by the urgency of the situation, for it is undoubtedly a fact that, although many years ago we were pioneers in advocating the use of electrical power, other countries since the War have shot ahead, leaving us all behind, with the result that many industries abroad are now able to compete with us in the matter of cheap production largely by reason of their ability to secure an ample supply of cheap electrical power.