ELECTRIC POWER WORKS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 59, 16 April 1914, Page 5

ELECTRIC POWER WORKS.

COMPLETING THE LINES. Within a few days the electric power transmission lines will be laid into the City Council's main transmission sub-station at the destructor in Armagh Street. The overhead transmission lines from Lake Coleridge to the Government sub-station at Sockburn are also nearing completion. Prom there the lines run overhead along the rail-' way line to the Addington transformer station, and the power is then taken underground by a three-core lead-cov-ered cable, bedded in concrete ducts filled with bitumen, running across Hagley Park to the Hospital, round Oxford Terrace, down Chester Street, and will then be led into the building now being prepared in the destructor grounds in Armagh Street. This building will be the main supply station for the power contracted for by the City Council/but in all probability when the. deipand increases, another sub-statipn Will be erected in the council's yard in Moorhouse Avenue.

The engineers are at present also runinirig an overhead distribution.. line to sub-station to the sanatorium, along Barrington Street, and it is arranged with the idea of eventually connecting with Lyttelton and outlying distripts. : The City Council has yet to receive and erpet its machinery in the Armagh .Street sub-station, and the probabilities are that tho Lake Coleridge works [ will be ready to supply the power bej fore the council is reacty to receive it.