HUTT POWER BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 5

HUTT POWER BOARD

TO THE CDITOII.

AT h~ i? -na feW words for niv Wend Mi. H. h. I<ranee, re alleged neglect of Phmmerton area: (1) Current was promised to Phmmerton, etc., six months after it was turned on to the Hutt I<»™ ,was>™ed on in January, 1925 (though originally promised by the Government in June, 1924); (2) current was later on promised to Plimmerton six months after the poles arrived. The poles for Plimmerton were due under contract in February, 1924, they arrived in February-March, 1925, and our dhtV g fang t « af™ ]ly,in th * Plimmerton distnct at the time of writing; (3) when he Phmmerton. Ratepayers^' Vssocia turn delegate waited on the Power Board last month he was informed current would be ava.lable at the end of June; (4) there are no steel towers on any of our lines. If Mr. France refers to the BW i?Sr °r, the Korok°™ t 0 Tawa Flat hill line, these poles are advised to be on the s.s Puriri, due in Wellington next week; (5) Mr. France paid his £3 lls deposit to the Power Board on sth September, 1924, the Power Board paid the balance on completion of his house nstallahon £17 15s on 20th November, IM4J, and charges him no interest. He will not be asked to pay anything off tho principal until he gets current) (6) Mr Mather informed the Plimmerton Katepayers representative that his districts needs had been kept before tho board-that Mr. M'Curdy had been a perfect nuisance in advocating completion, but the failure of the Government to supply current in June, and of tho delay in the contract had caused dislocation in the board's plans; (7) in case Mr I-ranco queries what we did with our gangs while waiting for Plimmerton poles I may say we utilised them in erecting duplicate transmission lines throughout the area, which we had "poled" under the original scheme, so as not to loae the services of-the experienced men we had m our employ.—l am, etc., ANGUS J. M'CURDY: 21st April, 1925.