POWER SUPPLIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21576, 22 August 1933, Page 5

POWER SUPPLIES

WAITEM!ATA EXTENSIONS ! AREA NEAR WAIMAUKU | A decision to proceed with an extend' sion of the electric-power supply to an. area adjacent to the West Coast Road,Waimauku, at a cost of £IOOO, was reached at a meeting of the Waitomata Electric-Power Board yesterday; The manager, Mr. A. Main, reported: that 10 guarantees, totalling £223, had been received from consumers in Taha, Mahana and Fletcher Roads. Tiie gross sales of current for July, amounting to £6320, compared witt £6555 for July last year, were shown in a report from the manager. The tota£ gross sales of current for the four months ended July 31 were £29,14?, against £29,391 for the corresponding period last year. Discounts allowed te consumers for the past four months totalled £5728, compared with £5378 last year. Broken insulators on an line outside the HelpnsviUe High SchccJ caused a shut-down of one and a-haSf hours recently on the northern circajSr to enable repairs to be carried ««&,. The engineer reported that the fcwaiing of insulators-supporting a lice "*rjai a serious matter, from points of viiew e£: continuity of supply and danssr tiu> life, since it was j>ossible that Bw* would fall on to the footpath. Is stated that the damage had parently caused by stones. Tfe? fccadl directed the attention of £&©• sdtocinij headmaster to the serious nasss&Js feenji stones thrown by pupils him to take action in the It was decided that the eSsinrrtraait and manager should attend the ceaSs?'ence of the Electric-Power Boards aatlt Supply Authorities' Association isU Wellington next month.

POSITION AT OOROMANDEIj,

A PROPOSED COMPANY

[nr TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT"! COROMANDEL, Monday A proposal by a private company to establish a Diesel plant to supply thai. Coromandel township, and possibly other parts of the peninsula, with etec-v tricity was again considered at to-day*3r meeting of the Coromandel County Council. The proposed company's representative and members of the council! spent nearly two hours discussing position, and finally the council granted, the representative an option for sis: months to finalise his arrangements.. Tho council also passed a resolution that, subject to tho conditions coa?> tained in the Government licence to company to supply electric-power to Coromandel township, the council should have tho right to take over power company's undertaking at ft to bo fixed bv arbitration at a date 20 years from tho date of the commencement of operations by tho Company.