MANGAHAO'S LOAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 25, 31 January 1928, Page 3

MANGAHAO'S LOAD.

TWENTY PER CENT REDUCTION

EFFECT OF DRY WEATHER.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

PALMERSTON NORTH, Monday.

Mr. F. T. M. Kissel, chief electrical engineer, told a conference of delegates representing all the authorities securing electric power from Mangahao that a reduction of the load was essential. Ho acknowledged the efforts several of the power boards and borough councils had made already to meet the situation, but said these were not sufficient to meet the crisis now facing the Department.

The conference gave the Department authority to make a 20 per cent reduction in loads, leaving it to the various boards to make their own arrangements to meet the circumstances.

Mr. Kissel considered a 20 per cent reduction would meet the case.

NEED FOR W AIKAREMO AN A.

WORK BEING PUSHED ON.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

GISBORNE, Monday.

Waikaremoana will be able to take -iver its share of the power load sooner than it was anticipated. The failure of Mangahao, hampered by water shortage, to meet the requirements of the district it serves, has caused the Public Works Department to push on with Waikaremoana.

The number of men employed at the power-house works, and on the power lines, exceeds 700, and it is likely to be increased.