WAIRARAPA POWER BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 18

WAIRARAPA POWER BOARD

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post,") CAETEETON, 12th September. The monthly meeting of the Wairarapa Power Board was held at Cartertou yesterday, Mr. J. W. Kershaw (chairman) presiding. The secretary reported a sat ,- factory increase in the revenue for August 1028 as compared with August last year, the gross revenue being increased by. £519 10s 7d and the net revenue by h&i 4s Bd. The total net incronse iroin ordinary consumers for the year ending disi March, 1928, was £4561 16s 6d. The average recorded peak load has increased during the month by about 50 k.v.a. to 1173 kva, with oue exceptional peak on 21st August of 1300 k.v.a. The peak load periods were also gradually changing, and were now between 7 p.m. ami 8 p.m. and between 11 a.m. and noon. *°ww»"J 1 sales for the month were £379 19s Id, compared with £456 3s Gd in August, lg^ The difference was due to the tact that in August, 1927, a special reduction was made in the prices of many appliances, resulting in increased sales, inn Public Works Department replied to an inquiry from the board that although the pr°sent indications are that Waikare--moana will be operating by the end of the year, there may possibly be hitches, and at the present stage it would be unwise to do any canvassing for new load. \. hitch has occurred in connection with the Bideford extension, and at the present time proceedings are at a standstill. The installation department maintains steady progress, 26 new consumers having been connected during August. The connected load increased by 131 k.w., and includes five ranges, ten water heaters, twelve motors, five of which are milking motors. Consumers connected to the board's mains number 3325, as under:— Masterton 1535, Carterton 70G, Grey town 239; Peatherston 437, Martinborough 40S. It was decided to proceed with the erection of an extension into the soldiers settlement at Te Ore Ore immediately the necessary guarantees are completed. It was decided that the Power Board could not entertain the request of the Wairarapa Hospital Board to pay anything towards the damage to the hospital ceiling alleged to have been douc by the board's