Demand for Electricity in Horowhenua

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6633, 21 August 1931, Page 8

Demand for Electricity in Horowhenua

LARGE INCREASE OF DAIRYING DEMONSTRATED. NUAIEROUS RADIO CONNECTIONS. The connected loan of the Horowhenua Power Board’s system to August 11, 1931, as reported by the engineer (Air. J. A. Smith) to the meeting on Tuesday, totalled 10,854 kilowatts. The analysis of its utilisation was as under:

k.w. Lighting IX'S'J No. Tl. h.p. Milking motors .. .. 677* . 847 Industrial motors .. .. 457 31)44 k.w. Heating points 3796 2884 Eanges .. 520 3245 Water-lieatcrs .. .. 596 565 No. of consumers—• Connected 3690 Applications .. .. 3746 Total connected load 10,854 ’’Representing 569 sheds. The engineer also reported that in the past month 17 applications were received from new consumers and 37 applications for extensions to existing installations, included in which were 6 milking, 12 separator, 1 pumping, and 1 industrial motor, 10 water-heaters and 1 range. Seven new consumers aud 36 extensions were connected, including 1 range, 6 water-heaters, 15 milking and separator and 2 industrial motors, and 25 power-points for radio sets —an increase of 45,867 k.w. In moving the adoption of the report, the chairman (Mr. Monk) said that the applications for new installations and extensions were most gartifying. it seemed as if the demand was going on indefinitely at the same rate. That went to show that the board was giving a good service and people were anxious to avail themselves of it. Eefcrring to the growth of the loan in the country area, the chairman said that when the district was being reticulated in 1923 it was known that the maximum number of dairies in the district was just under 500. Now there were 677 motors being served, in 569 cowsheds. This' showed that there had been a very considerable growth in the dairying industry right throughout the district. Probably that accounted in a large measure for the applications that came in month by month for new installations. Mr. Barber said the general regret was that so many farmers who wanted tho power were not able to get it. Mr. A. Seifert said that the end of reticulation was not yet in sight. Thousands of acres of land were coming into dairying use in the northern part of tho district. The chairman remarked that in the southern portion of the district thero was land that would be brought mto dairying which, a few years ago, was not looked upon as dairying country. Mr. Vincent said that one of the reasons for the extension, of the board's operations was unquestionably the efficiency of the service. Eccently, a farmer who had joined up early in the scheme told him that only once since that time had ho been compelled to milk or separate by hand, that being on the occasion of an interruption between Mangahao and the Shannon substation.

most Yorkshire women rvould complain, are too thin—tho number of people who would har r c to ask for 'outsize’ garments will increase drcmendusly. And every v/oman detests the word ‘outsize.-’ " Another Yorkshire woman suggested that the Avord “outsize" was undignified in any case, and that, if some standardisation Avcre intended, this Avord should be discarded, and some moro womanly term adopted.