NEW MENACE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 May 1923, Page 5

NEW MENACE

9 ELECTROLYSIS. DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS. BY CABLE—PEtoS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received May 22, 9.10 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 22. ' The city engineer has issued a warning in icgard to the menace of electrolysis. He states that a great deal of damage has already heen caused to water and gas mains by the escape of electricity. That, however, is a small matter compared with the serious effects it is having upon buildings, the steel bars and girders of which are being eaten through. If the leakages are not stopped it is only a matter of time when many buildings will crumble into ruins. A remedy would be return wires to carry back the direct current, but this is expensive and, meantime, propeties valued at hundreds of thousands are being ruined.—Aus.-N.Z.