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Article: Power crisis halts trading
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- The Press
- Article date:
- February 23, 1998
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AUCKLAND -- Auckland city leaders and emergency services last
night ordered an unprecedented shutdown of the central city until
power is restored, which may take a week or more.
Central Auckland, the hub of the country's big businesses, has
been in the throes of a power crisis since the fourth and final
major
power cable supplying the district failed on Friday night.
A crisis committee of police, civil defence, firefighters, health
officials, insurers, and power company Mercury Energy said the risk
to public health and safety was too great and no shop or office
should open without power. The fire service warned it was unsafe to
enter buildings with alarms, sprinkler systems, and lighting. ...