POWER LINE BREAKS
Flash Seen At Distance
With a flash that sent children playing nearby to shelter and was seen from the hills across the harbour an electric power line snapped in the Ngahauranga Gorge early last night. There was a momentary flicker of lights in Wellington and the Hutt Valley as a change over was. made on the panel at the substation to provide an alternative source of supply to that interfered with.
The bregk occurred 200 yards from the Hutt Road, and is believed to have been caused by some object haying been • thrown over the wires. There was blasting a mile and a half up the gorge about the time of the break. It is possible for rock thrown into the air and striking line's to cause a short circuit and breakage of lines. Because of the distance of the blasting from the scene of last night’s break it is considered more probable that the fault was caused in the immediate vicinity of where the line was short-circuited.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 21, 19 October 1938, Page 6
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