RONGOTFA NOTES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11958, 2 December 1919, Page 4

RONGOTFA NOTES.

From Our Own Correspondent

A special meeting was' called on Saturday afternoon last of the directors of Kongotea Dairy Co-op. Society and the Kongotea Town Board to meet Mr L. Birks, electrical engineer to the Public Works Department. Mr Birks, while speaking in connection with electric development mentioned that any expenditure undertaken by local enterprise in the erection of poles arid lines for reticulation would hold good when the hydro-electric power from Mangaonoho comes through. He referred to the work done by the Tapu Co-operative Dairy Co. at Christchurch in distributing light and power under the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric scheme. The Compay started with a plant for supplying about thirteen houses, and now’ distributes over a radius of five miles. The scheme was undertaken primarily for the convenience of suppliers in provision of all the benefits of cheap light and power afforded ty electricity, ana it has proved so successful that fresh suppliers have been drawn to the district thus cotisiderablj’ augmenting the main business of the Company,