ELECTRIC POWER

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 9

ELECTRIC POWER

Fflfto®® 9 WIPOM ' rftKUm OS*®® OT- " xi.- Ha Progress to£odu»d the important Ttoori electric power w "iST**» w onoted the rep ° Uio m i 9 sL nt eleotrioal engineer, I had yet MJSf ind wppUed with power five mam power-houses, ■0 subsidiary Eoorces. written to the Jf* Pofclio Works in the maUer, receive that the matter should ' rttfffiv discussed until a reply the Minister, went into committee.to letter, and other «^t!i»init fa a oopy of the letter 5H|?2, rtlide to tne Minister of SStimiiaon line. The object of understand is to enISK transmitted from one jgSiAjnfnrring in any station. If fjK heeneof the objects of the It seems advisable, if not ampte pronaon should, economic transmission SSLa power to &t leftist tno _Sia>tneg of any one_district applied, during the ourrtney of The probable duration .breakdown can of ccfurae only 3fL«ad: The League is given to aZutS that the fine now under iTirection between Lake ColeJfiri Tioarrfl which wiH^be^us^ in the South Is-HfflSjsoh-tyßtem referred to. If llFttße it seems essential that SM be large enough to supStttWßt and prospective South g&fod. besides having suffito carry additional load required on either side. ta« Wtation is felt m well(Sftles in Christchurch as to Bthf '-.Department is not sacnilency arid jeopardising the .jsess of'the whole scheme for toe <rf economy in the first place. prevails here that the voltfit iwfch it is proposed to transmit U will prove gravely insufficient ittrnjih provision will be made for ft&Mof the.line. While the exITof providing; • T ® lta f?! Mjotbfl warranted so far as South afttuHr ooncerned,' would it not l&» praaent'to spend the addiffSoMy .necessary for a suitable I'MJrst instance, rather than jy ultimate circumstahces biiltt^Jaaathe existing line? It, rm-.3wVt lie readily Admitted by MtflltWrtoeat that to carry out a Smsa|«tl ; ,66,ooo "volts to 110,000 now being consideration. : The much concerned, that the question ,'lB. so vital to the a''thejwßole, 'South. most''urgent' stagr-ih' the meeting, Mr r Leigna should imIBr we objec-Maft-.cbal'gitig- through-pommioil-'for j ,clcctrio power... th° B^^ll^-tliOiight.it-unfair* that the iiger* shoifld have to pay those ■' in the North : v transmission moved: "That emphatic prorini iiiiiiin nl making a charges ;n the Said they did not flat Irate was to . won Id be. better. to with in its t6- ■ the-mo-