WAIKERE-MANGAHAO
— MAIN SWITCH TROUBLE. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 10. Trouble in one of the main switches of the combined Waikare-Mangahao electric supply system at 8.41 p.m. cut out Waikere and threw the whole load on the Mangahao station, considerably overloading it, and causing a general drop in the voltage. One curious effect would be noticed by many users of electric clocks, which in consequence of the drop in frequency. lost 4 minutes in the half hour, there was no need to alter the clocks, as the engineers at Alangahao are putting them right by the simple method of running the generators a trifle fast until the lost minutes are made up, after which the station will revert to its 50 cycle per second.
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Grey River Argus, 12 June 1933, Page 4
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