POWER POSITION UNCHANGED

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14636, 3 April 1948, Page 6

POWER POSITION UNCHANGED

LAKE TAIJPO LEVEL STILL FALLING FURTHER HEAVY RAIN EXPERIENCED (P.A.) Auckland, today. The power position was unchanged, said the general manager of the State Hydro-Electric Department, Mr A. E. Davenport, yesterday. It was still too early to be able _to say whether the economies being practised by the various power boards were having the required effect on the total demand. In spite of heavy showers which ■fell in the area early yesterday morning, the level of Lake Taupo continued to fall at the. rate of about half an inch a day. However, more heavy rain fell there, last night. A further 1.64 in of rain fell at Waikaremoana in the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, and the lake rose about an inch. The following tables give the levels of the lakes yesterday compared with those a week ago and on the corresponding dates in the last three years:— 'lake taupo (Overflow level, 1177 ft: minimum control level, 1172 ft) . • April 2 March 23 Feet Feet 1943 1172.65 1172.35 1947 1173.15 1173.35 194 G 1172.3 1172.35 1945 1176.35 1175.5 LAKE WAIKAREMOANA (Overflow level, 2016 ft) April 2 March 26 Feet. Feet 1348 1989.1 1989.2 1947 .... .... 1995.1 1995.3 1946 2006.4 2006.8 1945 2012.6 2013.1 King’s Wharf power station continued to generate at 10,000 kilowatts yesterday, the extent to which it can operate on the coal available. Stocks of coal in hand were 1417 tons.