BANKS PENINSULA POWER BOARD
1 ADDITIONAL CONNECTED LOAD
The Banks Peninsula Power Board received a report from the engineer (Mr F. Ai Lewthwaite) that the additional connected load was 20.331 k.w., bringing the total connected load to 7675.412 k.w. The increase for the year was 335.501 k.w., while for the corresponding period last year it was 548.263 k.w. There were 1116 consumers, 344 water-heaters, 269 general purpose motors, and 437 electric ranges connected to the system. Lightning arrestors to fit to transformers most exposed to electric storms would soon come to hand. The Controller of Electricity wrote approving the board’s action in estimating accounts where meters were only read every six months, the midwinter and mid-summer readings being cut out.
The Defence Department and Post and Telegraph Department approved of charges and installations to supply Ripa Island, Lyttelton. The Credits in the board's accounts were:—Loan account. £1565 4s 3d; loan assets, £166 7s; power fund, £3697 Is 4d,
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23586, 13 March 1942, Page 7
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