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\ PSC Hearing Due to Be Postponed LAS VEGAS MORNING 4-5-51 Hearing on the proposed , water rate increase for the Las Vegas Land and Water ! Co. is expected today to be f continued until a later date ;j to give the city time in which f to study evidence presented i by the water company arid : prepare an answer to its I claims. ' Union . Pacific railroad’s con- i suiting -engineer and rate expert, I R°„y Wehe of San Francisco,, con- j tiriued throughout yesterday’s afterhoon session before) the Ne­vada; Public Service Commission i under questioning by City A tty. J Howard Cannon, who is expected to conclude with the- witness this | 'morning. ' ? ., -. Additional water company wit­nesses are expected to follow Wehe and. their testimony will undoubtedly take most of today’s session. Robert Allen, PSC chairman, speculated he may continue the hearing after today’s session un­til protesting parties- haye had time to review-: the-testimony arid prepare their side of the issue. Meanwhile, it was disclosed that the Union Pacific railroad, which owns the water utility, his | included in its-.estimated budget of expenses for this year, pro­visions to install water -mains on I the, Westside and. had allocated j approximately $40,00b ? for that 1 purpose. , jjp In addition,' officials rcporled I the: Water ‘. company had’ eom- I pleted its work, of installing cen- | trifugai pumps to' assure in- , creased summertime- .water sup- f If®'' I" During- the - hearing, under ? cross-examination. b y Cannon, | Wehe admitted that the figures I he presented as. basis for the j i Water increase included about | $160,000 Written off during, the war as defense amortization, and picked up as a capital investment in subsequent years under, the . contention it had- not benefitted - by the write-off. | Cannon’s questioning estab­lished that the company, by com­bining the utility which is merely i a distributing agency,.: with the I San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt . Lake City railroad, owned by UP, ; was not consistent in its figures. He charged that at some points j ; the company combined its Hi«. i tribution and production statis- p tics, <«nd at"'' other times, sep- F arated them when the results- I SUN