DEMAND FOR POWER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18332, 23 February 1923, Page 7

DEMAND FOR POWER.

♦ ; INCREASING IN AUCKLAND. f . LARGE FIELD AT TAURANGA. .« j Some ' interesting remarks concerning the demand . for hydro-electric i power were made by Mr. aL. Mandeno,:electrical engineer to the Tauranga Borough Council' at the .conference of the 'New Zealand Society of Engineers.' During the discussion on the respective merits of ■!';. generation "of electric power from a; steam-power station near ■'{•;'Huntly >as against transmission. fromArapuni, doubt was expressed by several' speaks as to the probability of there being sufficient ■' demand for current to utilise the amount : of plant proposed to 'be installed there ' by the Public Works .. Department, namely • 30,000 k.w. ' ■'• -• ...',;•,." .' It was, however, pointed out by Mr. S. I. Crookes, a member of the Auckland Power Board, that the demand in '; Auck-'.."■■■ > had recently increased in such, a,.manner . that the board was considering the ad- , visabifity of increasing its steam plant - to 25,000 k.w.; by 1925. H: vrfS :\rt■■ ; -.•:'. > Confidence in the prospect of securing the 1 • necessary demand Was also ' expressed > by. Mr. Mandeno, who considered that within' wide limits the demand would be i what' we, cared to make it. Compared on the basis of population the : territory yto be. Supplied from Arapuni should.take.con-'..-:*' siderably more than 30,000 •'• k.w., based',';-'■/■" on ; the present consumption of electricity . in the Tauranga district, and this was., • still increasing. He alluded to the large / field for electricity in its household uses ; and for road transport.