BREAKDOWN AT WAIPORI.
Further slips occurred at Waipori on Monday morning, causing Nos. 1 and 2 pipe lines to come down about three inches, and affecting No. 3 line also. It wae considered unsafe to keep the water in them, and consequently the power was shut off at 11 a.m. The steam plant was brought into requisition, and a restricted tram seivico ■was run all day. This will perforce continue until power is turned on again. The break-down in the power supply is being very severely felt by those factories which arc wholly or in part dependent on electricity for their working energy. A good many of them have been obliged to shut down, and one firm —Messrs Rofts and Glendining—have been forced to throw no less than 500 hands out of employment. It is safe to say that over ICGO persons arc out of work as the result of the stoppage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 31
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