MANGAHAO POWER
BREAK IN TRANSMISSION LINE LOCATED. DIRT IN INSULATORS CAUSB OF TROUBLE. (Per Press association.! Wellington, March 2. The break in the transmission line from Mangahao has been located and put right so far as the east line is concerned, this being effected anil the line got going at 8 o’clock last night. The fault in the other line is still being sought Mr. Kissell remarked to-day that the trouble on the east line was at Karaparaumu. He had known of fire engines going out in California and washing the insulators every two or three weeks, but that was in flat country and anything of the kind was out of the ouestion in the hilly country here. The insulators had to be cleaned by band. Men were at present going over the line that is still cut and cleaning all the insulators.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 64, 2 March 1929, Page 5
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