ELECTRICAL GOODS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26538, 28 September 1951, Page 6

ELECTRICAL GOODS

BAN PROPOSED ON UNSAFE ITEMS

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 27 Some New Zealand electrical appliances were of a very hi ch standard indeed, but some were “not just so good,” said Mr R. G. Stephen chairman of the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, to-day, when he moved a at the Power Suoply Authorities' Association conference asking for regulations to prohibit the manufacture, importation, and sale of electrical apparatus which was unsafe or not safely wired. Mr Stephen said some of the equipment concerned was imported, and sane made in the Dominion Mr Stephen gave the following as examples: equipment with two-core wires for fitting with three-core mugs; three-core plugs which were liable to be wrongly connected (it was suggested that the points could be coloured to correspond with the colours of the wires); and certain appliances with open-type elements which could expand with heating and cause a hazard.

a M , r , J ’ steele > chairman of the Auckland Electric Power Board, said there was a very grave danger in the sale of equipment parts in department stores, for members of the public to repair such apparatus as toasters and radiators.

“I am very concerned about the sale of internal parts of this equipment It is very necessary that it should be stopped, Mr Steele added. The remit was approved.

SEATING OF SAFETY STANDARDS WORK BY GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. September 27 A body to bring down standards for the safety and quality of electrical goods exists in New Zealand. It is the Electrical Apnliances Committee of the New Zealand Standards Institute. This was said to-day by the chairman of the Standardi Council

(Mr G. A. Lawrence). He was commenting on an Auckland message in which the chairman of the electrical manufacturers’ section of the Auckn l a .l ufac T ture ! rs ? Association (Mr D. T Clifton-Lewis) said that makers of electrical appliances in New Zealand would generally be wholeheartedly behind the setting up of any Government body or committee to determine the standards of electrical household appliances. metrical “The Standards Institute, which Is financed from public funds, has many committees constantly considering and bringing down standards in relation to materials used in industry generallv and also matters dealing with public safety etc..” wi djf r Uwren£ He added that the Electrical Apnliwhich ,h “