POWER CUT OFF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 4

POWER CUT OFF

AUCKLAND SUBURBAN AND rOUNTRY DISTRICTS AF-, CO FECTED

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. o&s&ss&rsL 4. prised this mo . r ° tlieii* intimation t Horahora, reem jj ora |iora em-A/ in drastic lorm- M ear- \ -Harrassetl by ried down from Arapum, wanted m ,the ci > suburban land industrial i hid to be comandmountp- JstncU had g* pletely cut A Wharf station, plied by. the Ki that has not is the only * r 'J Tl , 'Aversion of the suffered through the diversi piUwav . Waikato , over the Arapum sp , For country power boards tne few days.have been,a ni f or offices m most instanees a a the holidays, hut when J m , off, the residences of other officials were deluged wiw plaints and enquiries.- wished r The farming community hax wisneo Pi- been thought of. Hundreas oi u _ Farmers have Uh*. (yCl*® unahle milk their; herds fave heen°able to manace only farmer day. In the Warkato a i[S: y w e .".d hS-milking mfmher U a laboring proeess whg explains tl» A ° r f 3 "“i and UHtf Jorkfc™ plaSid to > bower board official that; he had ■CO get hreakrast unto after, miqaay. The estimates of tlje mconvemence that ould he occasional P ion at Arapum proved to he deemea lv astray. At the ..most, the . warnings' said that consumers would 4 "obfect to slight incon«mane«, and they were urged kcoordmgly to eeeonotnise with their power Not ail economies in the world, however would have averted the trouble created when the Waikato bouncing over the soft country below the Ara puni spihvav sluiced away thousands of tons of trees, rubbish,.mnd scrub, which swept on to Horahora, _an» formed- an impenetrable mass against rhe screens above the turbines. The period over which the inconvenience would extend was another direction in which the estimates miscarried. The trouble has already covered the specified three days, and may easily last until the end or the week. Below the Arapum spillway the river is still settling into its new course, and in doing so , is eating away more fresh country mad carrying more rubbish down to Horahora. Since Sunday, efforts to keep the intake screens clear have been- mamtained ceaselessly, but with only minor success. Such was the effect of the choking of the screens that the power output was reduced to a minimum, and even Arapum, for the first time in the history of the contract, had to deoend on candlelight. Auckland city, supported by the sturdy Kings Wharf steam plant, has so far suffered no inconvenience, and is unlikely to be affected. Some of the suburbs, however, had a taste of the trouble this morning when the power was cut off from North Shore and'Other distrieis.