DURABILITY OF POWER POLES.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS. Thames Valley Activities. The Thames Valley Electric Power Board has displayed a keen interest in the matter of preserving the life of transformer poles and- enquiries have been made in this direction. At Tuesday's meeting of the board the manager (Mr. R. Sprague) reported that the poles from the Forestry Department had arrived in Te Aroha. These were for experimental purposes, and would be erected on Mr. Strange's property at Mangaiti. The biological section of the De-, partment of Agriculture, Wellington, wrote acknowledging receipt of a grub that had been forwarded for identification, and advised that jt resembled very, closely the New Zealand hu-hu. An endeavour would be made to rear the grub to the teeth stage for further investigation purposes, as it was considered possible that it might be of Australian origin.
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Matamata Record, Volume VII, Issue 587, 4 December 1924, Page 1
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