WAITEMATA POWER BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19141, 6 October 1925, Page 12

WAITEMATA POWER BOARD.

PRELIMINARY PROGRESS. FIRST SHIPMENT OF POLES. Hie Waitemata Power Board met yesterday, the chairman, Mr. J. W. Hayden, presiding. Reporting on the progress of works, the engineer, Mr. W. P. Gauvain, stated that contracts had been placed for the supply and delivery of 219 miles of cable. Contracts had been let for erection of ! sheds on the sites of the Henderson j and Helensviile depots, and tenders had been called for the supply and delivery of meters and sundry switch gear and lightning arrester apparatus. So far 123 poles had arrived from Australia, but a much larger shipment was due about the end of the month 411 poles and cross-arm timber had been forwarded to Hender&on and a gang had been started on the erection of poles In that, district. A foreman had been engaged for erection work at North bnore and a start would be made as Boon as material arrived. Regarding the arrangements for the Supply of power for the Takapuna tramway service, the engineer reported that the agreement with the Takapuna Tramway and Ferry Company had been Signed, and hitcs for the two tramway tub-stations had been chosen at the Strand fend at the corner of Beach Road, N'egotiations were in progress in connection with the combined use of poles over the tramway route, and the necessary materia) wou d Of ordered as soon as "an agrtsetru'nt was reached. The agicement in connection with the taking over of the Devonport Borough electrical undertaking was in the hands I of the solicitors to the Borough Council. Mr. W. E. T. Leigh ton was appointed Chairman of the Works Committee.