FRANKLIN POWER BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 23

FRANKLIN POWER BOARD.

j nutxoATzoir proposals. 'uS I* experiments to be made. -At the last meeting of the Franklin Power J®*™ the chairman, Mr. John Dean, prewaM over a full attendance of members. « request was received from the owners of It Aka Aka. for a reduction of the aimmum charge during the cummer joontbs, 'when the pumps were not in use. tNtfijJejation was deferred until after ZiSrJ ,• ''■1 1611 the schedule of charges for is to revised. K» ■ f Question of irrigation was introduced special committee set up to jTOstjgate the possibilities of the procommittee recommended that invite offers from farmers in the SEES'. I*®1*® have suitable flats for irrlgaSmnw 80111B 0111 5 v , e to 10 acres ' and a wa ter mvjy of not less than 2000 gallons per dry weather, of the use of their <lr«:? r^ n experimental plant, and to apply department of Agriculture and interested for a grant towards the mwLiSL P^ ant * It was considered by 2£sl^? S J£ at the Proposal offered wide 52J« °P«rations of the board. The XmtJ? h 5 experiment would be awaited as was considered some22iSL!!? ne 5 c i?* would be the outcome in the »rki. the farming community. ooerd decided to appoint three sinkd»nr£?< ». commissioners to administer its w E«Ciitlon reserve funds. U..„« pr ? li s lnary obstacles In relation to and l&r? the Onewhero, Pukekawa C^2. t 7 rt . ridings of the Baglan ttttuSL* een negotiated, and the »»rkJo a .?* wus that as much of the *intPr L PO - M « ,b ? completed before the roarts intl ll ew.w of the bad condition of the given intt L season- engineer was 5® authority to Institute a canvass of we area immediately, and asked to facllifh,r ,e u Tr . ork as much as Possible. «ei«L? airman ' Mr . L - W - Keals ' the t« S.^ e « appointed a sub-committee Central Power Board and conquestion of the reticulation of a */ea between the two power disWiiS a lading from Mercer to somenv! the vicinity of Huntly. Mr. T. R. Overton, reported was proceeding apace on ttrni_^ a^ oe '^ aian Pa section. Poles had jjw erected as far as the Mental Hospital at i»2. Lan,I an ,£ ns wiring gangs were operating \? ara i k ,. a *®T Try,ury, Oaklands Road. Utn2^^.v l^ a Aka - Opaline. Tuakau and ,• extending services and ina«fnlsj e 7 ' ines - The report added that PiruSl*! 8 had'been made of Oaklands Eoad, an< * a Payable load obtained. The °?^ araka HaU to tJ »e Mental Hos•nMl a V Wa ' au Pa - had been completed, The fSvtS, 5J u ?. rs^ cre beln * investigated. »he^S^K?^ Ity Hghting proposal for PnkeIndnflM final £ s * d - and 64 lights were the scheme. A canvass was wonti i£ S*!? 8 tram the Hunua Gorge, and rat* into Ararimu and Papaiohe i«f ! ?; st meeting both the IPukeHow#**s™ wainkn suction gas generating in «.»..? » were P ut into wording order HwT d emergency, owing to trouble at «bonf^n ra " The twf> Plants would carry Joad ».* per 'ent of the board's maximum t ßtt ' * n " could only therefore be of assist-

total« 2??.T a f urn i s hed showing that the *«* aww t cted loa * the end of Tuinarr «£<«« »£i™