HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 37, 12 February 1920, Page 11

HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

——• TE AWAMUTTJ BOARD. j

INSTALLATION OF MEMBERS. 1 PROPOSED LOAN OF £120.000. (From Oar Own Correspondent.l | TE AWAMUTU. "Wednesday. I The realisation of the Te Awamntu hydro- ] eiertrii- scheme was brougb-t nearer to-day, when rhe first Power Board -was officially ] constituted. The board will control the i hydro-electric scheme, -which will, derivIng its aonree from Horahora. supply Te I Awamntu and the big district ronoerneJ. : 1 with electricity. The installation nf the ; board m-arks the first occasion of its kiml ;in the Dominion. As the number of candi--1 rmiulred. no election was necessary. A 'attended the ceremony, at which wero pre , s-pnt Messrs. .7. A. Yonng and F. F. Hoc-kly. M.r.'s for Waibato and Rotortra re<pt-ctively. (iibson. H. S. Toojrnnd. and McLennan and nrhers. After the nffinial i"en>mon.v .T. T. Johnson was elected chairman, and Mr. A. G. Warburton —the j orlplnal secrt'taTy of the Provisional Com- ' I mittep—wns appointed acting secretary, it helnp later proposed to engace a permanent ; ■ secretary ar a salary of foOO per annum. The first board was complimented by Messrs'. Hockly and Yohus. who stressed the (Treat advantaso that wonld accrue to j I the district throuch hydro-electricity. 1 At the flrst meetlnj that followed the I Installation It ira> decided to raise a loan 'of £120/100. nn» of the lnne>=t public loans ynt raised In ihe Waikato. It is estim.iteil that the work will he commenced shortly, and will take a couple of l>f°n appointed enpineer for the pebemp. 1 The area involved is vprv larpe. extending from ftlmnst tn Tlamiltrin. as far us the : Kins Country border. It had orielnally j been intended to include Ororohanpa in I the reticulation nrea. but this was ruled j out as impracticable. A special banquet to the visitors was held on Tne=dav eveninz. npolocies belns received from the Prime Minister Sir TV. . Frnser. r>r. T. Hay. and others. "