EXTENSION LOANS FOR POWER BOARDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 16

EXTENSION LOANS FOR POWER BOARDS

WIDER POWERS GIVEN CONFERENCE AT WELLINGTON Press Association. WELINGTON, Thursday. A discussion took place at the Power Boards’ Conference to-day on a remit, “That definite powers be given to boards to require trees endangering power lines to be removed or trimmed back by owners. In the event of the board being compelled to do this work, the cost of same shall be recoverable from the owners of the land on which such trees are growing.” This remit was lost. A remit was carried as follows: (1) For purposes of providing extension lines required where guarantees are given and of strengthening transmission lines to enable a greater load to be carried, the board may, by special order, with the consent of the Minister raise a loan over either the whole or some defined portion or portions of its district, the amount to be raised in any one year not to exceed 5 per cent, of the original authorised loan raised for the construction of the undertaking: (2) in the alternative, it shall be lawful for the board for either of the above purposes to levy in any year a separate rate either" on the whole or on some defined portion or portions of its district, the amount of such a rate to be within the limits prescribed in paragraph one. All officers were re-elected, and Mr. W. G. Galloway, of Otago, added to the executive.