CAUSE OF POWER FAILURE
DEFECT IN SWITCH AT WAITAKI
“I understand that a switch blew out at the Waitaki power station, ahd the reason for the general power failure in the South Island on Tuesday night would probably be because Waitaki was carrying the greater part of the load at that late hour,” said Mr F. T. M. Kissel (general manager of the State Hydro-Electric Department) when a reporter of “The Press” telephoned him at his home in Wellington last evening. . It is understood that the district engineer of the State Hydro-Electric Department (Mr W. H. Gregory) And the assistant district engineer (Mr E. E. James) went to the Waitaki power station yesterday.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25440, 11 March 1948, Page 6
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