POWER EXTENSION

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 54, Issue 32650, 26 November 1945, Page 6

POWER EXTENSION

VALLEY BOARD’S REPLY WORK IN THAMES COUNTY IS STILL HELD UP ••It requires only a dozen poles/’ said Or. E. .1. McLoughlin at the meeting of tin 1 Thames County Council yesierday. when expressing surprise that while power had been made available for a private undertaking in the Ilikulaia area (hi* Thames Valley Elec! rie I’ower Board was not able to accede |i> the council's request to extend power to Te Mala,. Thames Coast. Tlio board advised that the council's request had been .placed before its members. The position with regard to giving supply to new consumers, especially in the territory, was now linked with the power position. At present the board was over its allocation of units from the department and it considered that its main interest today was the continuity of supply to the dairy farmers in the territory, who numbered from 4000 to 5000. An assurance had been received that the increase of units to the board would be considered at an early date. However, until this increase was given it. was not in a position to Consider any further connections. The whole position was held up through the inability of the department to give the board electricity. The clerk, Mr .1. F. Eames, §aid the county had made out a good case for the extension and had put it before the power board three times. Cr. McLoughlin suggested that, it be put up a fourth time. The extension was required, not for camping cottages, but for permanent, homes. The council was not, he considered, receiving proper treatment. The power should be carried to the boundary of the County.