FRANKLIN POWER BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 237, 6 October 1926, Page 11

FRANKLIN POWER BOARD.

MONTHLY MEETING. WORK OP RETICULATIO*. (From Our Own Correspondent.) PTJKEKOHE, this day. The Franklin Power Board met yesterday, the chairman, Mr. John Dean, presiding. The postmasters at Pukekohe and Pap£ kura advised that arrangement* bad bees made by the Post and Telegraph Department to charge to the board toll fee. entailed when country people were reportIng broken lines. ThU etep was regarded as In the interests of safety, as It wag felt that if persona discovering broken lines had to go to the expense of ringing the board's omee they would not take the same trouble as If they could communicate free of cost to themselves. The engineer. Mr. T. K. Overton. reported that proposed new reticulation lines bad been surveyed and plane prepared for Pokeno Valley, Waiuku, Pokeoware. Bald Hill, a nd part of the Walnku town district. A number of hijrh nnd low tension lines were livened during the month, and following up thn taking posBessiont of the Wniuku plnnt the hoard's power supply was switched on in Waiiiki* on September 9. A pole erecting gang has been working from Tuakau to rnkeno. Two feeder lines, from Glenl.rnok and Aka Aka to Waiuku, have been cnmplet'-ri. After coinpletins a fairly y,h on Smeed's Ko«d the gang would so into camp at F<*f«» Valley. Four wiring Ranps were bntUr engaged operating in many V 3™. * r _*2 board's district. Permits issued tor nework and extensions total Uβ* *»_ number of "PPlicnnons .g*» flnc . Z7, k m^h 1 * tSS' »»-*r tt°. f toui nected consumers w<A'w With connected load was "S* Fukekohe regard to a supply ?'P O TSX „ agitator charged '"M"',.;,,. of twelve hoars' use I «""*f Bte _,d , used over and above i was adopted.