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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6625, 11 August 1931, Page 6

Owing to the fact that some confusion was experienced in trying to ascertain the correct boundaries of counties by maps, when a proposal was being considered to supply power to au island at Tangimoana settlement, the Mana-watu-Oroua Power Board’s engineer (Mr. W. A. Waters) recently visited the locality by aeroplane, taking aerial photographs which clarified the position in regard to accessibility.

Blythe Leslie Scott, a Palmerston North gardener, aged 36 years, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to answer charges of being found drunk and also with not failing to comply with the terms of his release on probation. Me was fined ss, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment on the first charge, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called upon oil the second count, conditional on taking out a prohibition, order.

In reply to an inquiry from the Tailiape Borough. Council to allow the chief engineer (Mr. W. A. Waters) of tho Manawatu-Oroua Power Board to report on its electrical undertaking tho members of the Manawatu body decided yesterday to accede to tho request, the chairman (Mr. J. A. Nash M.P.) stating that it was a compliment to tile ability of Mr. Waters in view of the fact that a number of consulting engineers were available in the Dominion. In a recent issue of Board and Council, Mr J. S. Barton, S.M., Civic Commissioner at. Napier, suggests creating a central fund for power boards for earthquake insurance, the basis being two-thirds of a penny on total revenue, estimated to bring in £IO,OOO a year from New Zealand boards. The whole details are set out in a report. The Auckland Power Board, after discussion of tho scheme, decided to refer the matter to the Power Boards 1 Associai tion, staled the chief engineer of the ' Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, in "News of the Month,” prepared for the board.

“If you want to make a political speech, hire a hall—you cannot mako it, here,” was tho advice a garrulous defendant by Mr. J. L. btout, 8.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday, when dealing with cases of failure to pay the unemployment levy. Defendant, however, porsised with his criticism of the Government, stating that he had worked hard at farming for 50 years and still had nothing. Mr. Stout smilingly reiterated that ho was not to blame and pointed out that townspeople as well as farmers wero experiencing hard times.

According to tho Minister of Public works (Hon. W. B. Taverner), the Diesel stand-by station at Lyttelton, to augment supply from Lake Coleridge, will be ready for operation, should the necessity arise, by the end of the present month. Each unit has a capacity of l SCO k.v.a., a total for the station of 7200 k.v.a. So far the level of Lake Colcridgo has not given occasion foi any concern and it is probable that the necessity for operating the stand-by station may not arise this winter. Prom “News of the Month,” prepared by Mr. W. A. Waters (chief engineer) for the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board. Four test, bores are now down in the Manawatu River bed in the course ot tho work to determine the nature of the foundations available for the new bridge at the end of Fitzhcrbert Avenue. Three on the banks are down to a depth of sixty feet, and it is necossa,rv for ail the bores to be sunk to a depth of 40 feet below low water level. There are three bores to be put down under tho water, and one is now being driven through hard’river shingle, the work being done by hand from a scaffold suspended from the bridge. It is anticipated that boring operations and full information concerning the foundations for the bridge piers will be complete in six weeks’ time. A special dinner is' being held at Wellington on Wednesday evening to eedebrato the Michael Faraday centenary, while to-day an executive meeting of the Power Board Engineers’ Association is being conducted, Mr. W. A. Water s (chief engineer for the Mana-watu-Oroua Power Board) having sig nified his intention of being present. Michael Faraday, one of the most distinguished chemists and natural philor sophers of the 19th century, is remembered more particularly for his guiding Clerk-Maxwell to the wonderful investigations of the dynamics of the elec tro-magnctic field and the theory of light, preparing tho way for the great advances in physics in the 20th century.