ELECTRICAL POWERSCHEMES

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12592, 7 September 1906, Page 8

ELECTRICAL POWERSCHEMES

HEPOHT TO SELWYN COU! ■ COUNCIL.

A special meeting of tiho County Council was held yeeterd*y;sji Present—lMeesra W. Du-nlop (chaii3lS man), G. Scott, W. McMillan, G. Btf/M ford.'D. McMillan, K. Wilson, and J?JI Wolfe. •§$ The meeting, the chairman v&jj& plained, was called to discuss ti»''| proposal of the City Council to the Electrical Power Act-, 1902, in tfcitl direction of enabling the Council to* como to some arrangement with &£% County Council for the use of their > races ax connection with any electric*!* power scheme which might be intrWl duoed. Under the Act as it now stood*| by clause 7 the City Council are pr*»S oluded from taking water within chains -above the intake of tlw Oouwap on the Waimakariri. h Mr A. l>. Paterson, C.E., reported that ho believed that the Council's po»i-' tion at tJie Gorge bridge was the key to the most economic treatment, where.' by the greatest degree of permaneoßy\;| might be obtained from a river de4jji positing such bodies of ehiog)».jp from time to time. Moreover, the figuration of the terraces ajnd the eoU»,H dity of the ehingle formation on th* '.'sj south side of the river were lees liable,3 to weathering6_jmd constant maintea.'l'l anee, also as "much as 90 feet head'Si might bo obtained some six miles the point of intake. As to the Cbtuv ,;f> cil'e water-race a>nd supply, it wae very' ■$ unsatisfactory, and the condition such ''4 that to carry a supply of 30 to 40 cubfc'isjp feet per second some £3000 at least Sg would be necessary, and it would le/tH quire that expenditure this suttune'r.l>|| At present not 10 cubic feet eecona passed along the terrace J| and but 6 feet per second reached point joining the Kowai rare at Km£v<b| berley. This race apparently was om£s! structed to carry 40cuibio feet peifjj second, but the flume structure hadmjfcjj been calculated accordingly, while th*§ tunnel had a capacity of 60 cubic feefcss per second. At the present thns t&jffj race was costing more to with considerably lees result, than race in the country. Irrigation, ~ course, might be required at MJfc£§|| future date, but the Comity Counsftziffi could reserve the right to take up water for the' purpose at a point Vqk3 low the turbines. Hβ strongly urgcalil the County Council' to give the' Cits||| Ccuncil every facility to carry on a liminary survey. The matter, he urgeiiS should oe gone into this summer| 'Vtmm order that the County Council migKt||| be relieved of an expenditure on WDrKi|l quite inadequate for water power quirementa. Some £3000 would. saved to the city ratepayer* if the msjf-||| ter were not delayed, for the carried out for the County ' supply would not assist the City cil at ell, <but would be | i •. v^"V S After disouasioa it was tho motion of Mr G. that the County Council would bo pwj|| pared to enter into an aßreementm whereby the City Council would ,4>vK liver sixty cubic feet of water V*'m second at the upper level at with the revertionary interest in 'thes whole of Rie water at the bwer leTeU.tJ|