Queensland Has Fulblicly Owned Power Work

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 46, 25 February 1936, Page 10

Queensland Has Fulblicly Owned Power Work

BRISBANE. —The famous Barren Falls, near Cairns, North Queensland, nave been harnessed to provide electric power for four snires and several towns, and the official opening ceremony was performed by tne State Governor, Sir lmslie Urine Wilson. This is the first hyuro-electnc power station in Queensland and is the culmination of several years of agitation by tne people of tne district. The piant is a publicly-owned utility and tne business end is looked after oy tne Barron falls Electricity Board.

The power station nouses two £OOO horse power turbines and provision has been made foi? the installation of a third unit. The total cost was £115,000. although the scheme is not a very ambitious one, it will be of immense value to this -tropical area where the cost of coal is hign.

Barron malls is one of the show places of Queensland. Thousands of visitors from all over Australia and from many parts of tho world travel over the railway that climbs along the face of the great gorge into which tumble the waters of the Barron River. in flood times this river sends down great torrents which transform the rails into a spectacular sight. The power lines will be carried over the fertile Atherton Tableland, the

great maize-growing district of Queensland, and will extent to a number of mining areas. Cairns is also the center- of a big sugar-growing area and the provision of cheap power will be of immense advantage to the sugar mills m several places.

Historic Tiberias Cuts Flood Losses

JERUSALEM.—Street widening anf draiuago improvements in historic Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, carried out after disastrous floods in 1934, lessened the losses from further floods this fall.

Damage was limited to the flooding of some shops and the tilling of others with mud and debris. While the situation was at no moment serious, tho population, remembering their experiences of 1934, rushed to higher parts of the town. With the cessation of the rains, the work of clearing the debris was immediately started, and the population returned to their homes. Situated as Tiberias is, at the foot of a range of hills, any exceptionally heavy rainfall is apt to sweep great quantities of mud and water down tho mountain sides, through the narrow and tortuous lanes of the old town, with such rapidity that they cannot find access to the sea quickly enough.

Tho teacher was testing the intelligence of a newcomer to her class. ’ "Who said, ‘I have come to bury Caesar'?” she asked. <*p—Please, teacher, the undertaker/’ suggested the nervous youngster.

The magistrate glowered at tho man, in the witness-box. "You say this mat robbed you?” he said, heavily. “Gan. you.pick out any of your property from this heap of articles found on tho prisoner?" “Yes; that’s, my handkerchief with. ‘B’ in the corner,” said the witness. “But that is no proof, my man," snapped the magistrate. “I have a handkerchief wdth ‘B’ in the corner.” “Well, I lost two handkerchiefs," said the witness. ,