HEAVY RAIN IN SOUTHERN ALPS
ECONOMY IN POWER STILL REQUIRED
“Although heavy rain accompanied the nor’-wester along the Southern Alps yesterday, and a considerable improvement in the hydro-electric position should result, it does not mean that consumers should waste electricity, and the utmost economy must still be practised,” said the assistant district engineer of the State Hydro-electric Department (Mr E. E. James) last evening. The full effects of the rain would not be known for another 24 hours, he said.
The flow in the Harper river, feeding Lake Coleridge,. had risen from 230 cusecs to 600 cusecs yesterday, and the Waitaki river had also risen.
The South Island storage potential was given as 39,700,000 units yesterday. compared with 40,460,000 units on Thursday, 43,860,000 at the beginning of the week, and 53,320,000 at the beginning of September. Power consumption has been drawing on water storage to the equivalent of about 1.000,000 units a day recently. This was not because of lack of rain. In the middle of winter, consumption was actually about half this figure.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25609, 25 September 1948, Page 2
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