POWER BOARD ENGINEERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22068, 26 September 1933, Page 8

POWER BOARD ENGINEERS

.ANNUAL CONFERENCE. • (Per United Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON, September 25. s The annual conference of the New Zealand Power'Board and Supply Authority Engineers' Association was opened this morning. '. ' Welcoming the delegates, the president (Mr G. Lauchlan) remarked that despite the difficult times the electrical industry had developed and must continue to do sO. Declaring the- conference open, the Mayor (Mr T. C. A.; Hislop) said the industry was potentially the biggest in New Zealand. A discussion took place on the subject of radio interference and the means of reducing such trouble. The conference gave hearty support to the report by the Special Committee* set up last conference recommending that legislation be sought for drawing up and enforcing suitable regulations. Mr Lauchlan said it was suggested that the Post and Telegraph Department should be the clearing house for interference complaints and should investigate them and should be allocated the responsibility for remedying them or improving the position, co-operating as far as possible with the electric supply and tramway authorities and the users of" electrical equipment. .•;