TARANAKI POWER BOARD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 8

TARANAKI POWER BOARD.

i j | MONTHLY MEETING. i! ■ ; A meeting of the- Taranaki Power 'I ■ iJoard was held h\ the secretary's ofi rice yesterday, when there were present- . Messrs H. C. Carman (chair). C j' ■' i Jielcncr, C. K. McGuinne.ss. T'.'~R Anderson, W. V. Harkness, and \\ r H . Vr ere. ' . } The Public Works Department for- ' warded a copy of a letter sent by tl-e I Minister (Hon. J. 0. Coates) to 3\! v N I i , Th« Minister stated that i Mr I'ryday hud evidently misunderstood i him when in an interview he had -iecepted it as a fact that the Minister J would introduce legislation to exempt \ all private owners from rates The P Minister said he had not at the time 1 gone into the legal position, and the board was authorised b y \ a \ y to levy i, rates to raise funds. Exemption of hi- ' dividual poAve.r owners would be equiva- i, lent to destroying the security pledged „ for the Board's loan. Ha regretted P that no exemption could be made"—Re- C< ceived. v: The Postal Department intimated that ' * on certam roads where the Govern- J nient earthworking lines would be a d- ~ jacent to the high power transmission £ lines the obligation of ensuring that no ,1 damage to the P. an d T. \tnes from £ mductiy© causes resulting from the $. proximity of the Power Board's lines f } was on the Power Board. Tlie method oi obviating the difficulty woukl to the 2? conversion of the earth-work mo- lj nes +• "ito metallic circuits by the ejection * ' of another wire. The rcsnonsibility f o " f' this was on the Power Board * ? c MemJwrs agreed that there was no al- \\ tions. tiV€ but t0 COmply Wlth the sh th6t^?o^"i ti°nod t]!^ the T)0]I on st July 5 " W°Uld be held on Advance conies of a booklet setting out engineers; reports., loan proposals' a schedule of charges and general in- ' rormation were received, it being seated ehfded mapS Were yOt to be in" I luifch moeti" X tllcn adjourned for ' u l: ■ J sc