Keen interest in modern technology was similarly expressed by engineers who marvelled at the efficiency of the hydroelectrical plant. Nowhere else, it seemed, could such heights of efficiency be attained. The Ontario Power Company's designer was speaking of this control room when he said: "Centralization of responsibility and authority, at defined points within the immediate personal care of a minimum number to operate is, next to simplicity of arrangement, the prime requisite of efficiency of organization and economy of operation Significantly, it would be difficult to find a better definition of the reform ideal in municipal government.
