WORK IN APRIL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 191, 27 May 1946, Page 5

WORK IN APRIL

POWER BOARD OPERATIONS Details of work carried out during the past month were reported to this morning’s meeting of the Ashburton Electric-Power Board by the engineer-secretary, Mr H. G. Kemp. A further 22 miles of line on the Ashburton-Lagmhor line was changed and the line is now complete from Lagmhor to the railway at Tinwald. In the course of change-over, three poles were- erected, and 23 temporary and replaced poles were recovered. The rewiring of the back track line to the Cairnbrae Road was completed and a start has been , made with the rewiring of the Cairnbrae line, the section paralleling the Methven railway being completed and respacing of poles done on the main line, seven extra poles being used. One defective pole was replaced on the railway branch.

Eighteen additional services and alterations to existing services required four poles, including two at Mayfield and one each at Staveley and Highbank. A ne\y service to a seed cleaning works at Ashburton required two poles and a temporary service to a crushing plant at Lyndhurst required three poles, while three were recovered from the previous location. At Winslow, a long low-tension branch was converted to high-tension on account of increased load. An additional small transformer was erected there. Two small transformers were changed in the course of reconstruction. One 50 kva. transformer was erected at Lyndhurst and a similar one was recovered from the hack track.

Sixty-seven trees were felled and 143 were topped. All repaired steel poles on the Chertsey-Mitcham and Mitcham-Holmslea line and in Rakaia township were reconcreted. The Greenstreet line was overhauled and re-strained. .