INSULATORS BROKEN BY BULLETS
REPORT TO TAURANGA POWER BOARD
“On Tuesday, March 8, one of the trucks was proceeding to Oropi when the staff saw two high-tension insulators broken and the cross-arm burning,” stated the engineer to the Tauranga Electric Power Board (Mr J. R. Bongard) when reporting to the monthly meeting of the board. The staff, he added, arranged foi the power cut off before an outage occurred, and replaced the insulators.
The engineer explained that it was found that the insulators had been broken by rifle fire. “It is now manv years since we had trouble from this cause, and it is to be hoped that this proves to be an isolated case,” he concluded.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14930, 18 March 1949, Page 3
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