ELECTRICAL POWER IN THE NORTH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12601, 3 March 1903, Page 6

ELECTRICAL POWER IN THE NORTH.

(From Ouk Own Coedhspohdent.) WELLINGTON, March 2. Mr Edmond Allo, the Swiss electrical oxpert, in the course of an interview said he found the Huka Falls are capable of giving in the dry season, taking the water at the lowest safe co-efficient, 39,000 horespower, with a very small initial cost for hydraulic power installation expenses. "This," he said, "is really tho easiest power to be worked that I have come across, because no technical difficulties have to bo overcome. This power (39,000 horse-power) can easily bo directed into four quarters— one of which would go north to Auckland and the Thames, one south to Wellington and provinces, one to Tarnnakij and one to the Napier district. This power would also yield the power necessary to run all the North Island railways by electricity. The present steam railways of the North Island use' 4000 horse-power. Increase this horse-powor to 9000 for railways, and there would then bo'lo,ooo horse-power for distribution among several industrial centres." He' added that the whole of the power should be transmitted on tho electrical three-phase system, which was the best for engineering purposes. The line loss from Huka to Auckland (160 miles) would not exceed 5 per cent.