POWER LINE BREAKAGES.
WAIKATO SAFETY DEVICE. GRANT TO THE ENGINEER. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] HAMILTON. Wednesday. Recognition of their engineer's services in inventing a safety device for the elimination of risk of electrocution from fallen power lines was made at a meeting of the Central Electric Power Board. Mr. H. J. Beeche, secretary to the board, explained that the device had now been installed on all lines. Mr. Stewart Reid thought the engineer, Mr. J. R. Ellis, should receive recognition, and on Mr. Reid's motion a sum of £IOO was voted. The secretary stated that the device underwent a practical test recently, when a wire on a 3000 volt line came down in a paddock in which a large flock of sheep were grazing. Owing to the device cutting off the power no damage was dono The break was not located for some time and in the interval tlio sheep had trampled the wire well l'nlo the ground. The board's 11,000 volt lines were equipped with circular breakers which should act automatically in the event of a line breaking-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19302, 15 April 1926, Page 8
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