POWER BOARD FINANCE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 4

POWER BOARD FINANCE

DISCUSSION OF REMITS

(By Telegraph—i'ress A ssociatioify

WELLINGTON, July 26. A discussion took the Power Boards’ Conference to-day on a. remit tiiat definite powers be given to boards to require that trees endangering power lines should be removed' or trimmed back by the owners. In the event of the board being compelled to do this work, the cost of the same should be recoverable from the owners of the land' on which such, tree® were growing. The remit was lost. A remit was carried as follows: (1) For the purposes of providing an extension of lines required where guarantees are given, and of strengthening transmission lines to enable a greater load to be carried, a board- may, by m special order and with the consent of the Minister, raise a." loan over either the whole of some defined portion or portions of its district*, the amount to be raised in any one- year not to exceed five per centum of the original authorised loan raised for the construction of the undertaking. (2) In the alternative, it shall be lawful, for the board, for either of the above purposes, to levy in any year a. separate rate, -either on the whole or on some defined portion or portions of its district, the amount of such rate to he within the limits prescribed in paragraph one. All officers of the association .were rc-elected, and Mr. W. G. Galloway (Olago) was added to the executive.