UNDERGROUND WIRES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1907, Page 6

UNDERGROUND WIRES.

ACTION BY THE CORPORATION. Soon the Wellington Corporation will make a beginning with the conduit system for the accommodation of cables th*t will convey electric current " supplied for motive power in the city. The cables are expected to reach Wellington in about three weeks, and the work of installing them underground will immediately commence. The little tunnels will run through all the principal business streets of the town. Some time ago it was thought that the Government, which proposed placing telephone wires under the earth's surface in congested areas, might co-operate with the City Council, and plans were • drawn, but joint action was found im- . practicable at present. "The council's scheme is different from ours* We are I §oing alone," remarked Mr. J. K. Logan, uperintendent of Electric Lines, to-day. "We are going into the undertaking gradually. We expect that a little bit •will be done shortly." Answering various questions, Mr. Logan said that the department would be obliged to go underground, more or less, every where by-and-bye, and Wellington would be the first city to re.ceiyo attention. It was not a matter of giving preference to Wellington because the place was Wellington, but because there was more necessity here than anywhere else in New Zealand for lightening the burdens of the overhead poles. The lead ' cables used now for enclosing wires to obviate the interference caused by the electric tramway service and storms could go underground, but it might not be considered necessary to shift the ones that were already in position. In the meantime the work of putting other overhead wires in these desirable covers will be gone 'on with without interruption.