POWER FAILURE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 11

POWER FAILURE

DIFFICULTIES COMBINE

A combination of minor difficulties built up a considerable difficulty in the restoration of the city power supply yesterday afternoon. The chain, it is believed, though not certainly established, started at Wadestown, where a limb of a tree came down over one of the street, lines, setting up a surge which ran over the feeder system till it reached a junction box outside the Evans Bay power station, where the underground cables climb the first of the overhead line posts to the city. A breakdown in the enclosed junctioning threw one. 11,000-volt main city feedr out of action, and though normally the second line would have carried ahead, this trunk was also out of action for the afternoon on account of an alteration of the location of a set of poles near the Kilbirnie Post Office .where road improvement in connection with Exhibition access is in hand. An emergency arrangement of circuits restored the power supply after a rushed interval, but work on the permanent circuits was not completed until this morning. '