MOTORS FOR MILKING SHEDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1075, 23 July 1924, Page 2

MOTORS FOR MILKING SHEDS.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—A few days ago I noticed corrospondenee directed at the Power Board’s charges re milking motors, and R.J., like his predecessor, displays ignorance of the subject. As to the remark in R.J.’s letter that advertising 2 h.p. motors was an insult to consumers’ intelligence, there is no insult, as his next statement, that farmers would be prepared to pay for the extra, power consumed, shows his ignorance of tho true position. If a farmer put in a 3 h.p. motor for milking when a 2 h.p. would do the work, his actual bill, if charged by units used, would not have a greater difference than 3 per cent, more for 3 h.p., whereas the bill the Power Board would receivo from the Public Works Department would be 50 per cent, greater. There arc two ways of metering electricity, i.e., true energy in units, whicn the Power Board is doing, and yet the Power Board have to buy it from the Public Works Department on the apparent or circulating power, a vastly different proposition. It is this point that many farmers fail to appreciate, so that in the tariff for milking motors the consumer is asked to share a portion of the demand recorded atMlunnythorpe. This is not only equitable but co-operation and tho wisdom of it will be appreciated by the farmers themselves within a few years. The Power Board could waste thousands of pounds per annum in wasteless k.v.a., but (he Power Board engineer is very much alive to the point and is actually protecting the farmers themselves if they would only realise it. With regard to tho remark that American material is almost universally used, I think R. J. will find that both British and American is being used by the Power Board, the engineer using it where lie knows through his knowledge and experience it will be most efficient. —Yours, QUIDNUNC. July 21, 1924.