LIGHT AND POWER

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5595, 22 March 1943, Page 3

LIGHT AND POWER

te awamutu board ACTIVITIES FOR TWO MONTHS The bi-monthly meeting of the Te Awamutu Electric Power Board was held on Friday, the chairman (Mr J. T. Johnson) presiding, and there were also present Messrs E. H. Rhodes, SC. B. Macky, R. J. Graham, V. A. de Coek, R. F. Armstrong, Colonel J. Matson, and Mr D. T. B. McArthur (secretary-manager). FINANCIAL statement * The financial statement showed the power fund account in credit £17,025 10s sd, the loan account in debit £7939 5s lid. the consumers’ finance account in credit £2455 2s lOd, and the total credit in all accounts being £11,541 7s 4d. The war funds' investment was shown at £5OOO, Bomber Bonds £3037 2s 6d, Liberty Loan £5500, the total investments being £13,537 2s 6d. Accounts presented and passed for payment at the meeting amounted to £5019 7s 4d. REVENUE EARNED The revenues earned from sales of current for December, 1942, and January, 1943. were reported as under: Lighting, heating, and cooking, December, 1942, £2645 13s sd; -January, 1943, £2567 Is 2d. Power: December. 1942, £2060 18s 3d; January, 1943, £1877 12s 6d. Penalties and sundries: December, 1942, £37 18s 4d; January. 1943, £44 18s lOd. Street lighting: December. 1942, £l9 15s Id; January, 1943, £2O. Totals: December, 1942, £4764 5s Id: January. 1943, £4509 12s 6d. The total for December, 1941, was £4522 8s 4d, and that for January, 1942, £4369 13s 7d. INSPECTOR’S REPORT The chief electrical inspector (Mi A. J. Tailby) in his report stated that service connections at date totalled 8249, made up of 2710 lighting plants, 905 cow-plant motors, 535 separator motors. 105 other power plants, 855 water-pump motors, 431 washing machines, 127 shearing plants, 1019 electric stoves, and 1562 electric waterheaters. The report detailed new connections and inspections made during the period.

FOREMAN’S REPORT The electrical foreman (Mr E. Bryant) reported for the past two-month-ly period that 35 poles were carted from the pole dumps and erected, of which eight were used on construction and 27 were for maintenance. Forty silver-pine poles were and these were unload from the railway and carted to pole dumps. Two miles of wires were changed to heavier copper, and 16 chains of single phase lines were changed to 3phase and neutral; 22 chains were dismantled. Lines are being overhauled as circumstances permit. The mid-Ohaupo 3.3 k. line has had a pole-to-pole inspection and necessary work requiring attention has been done. Lines were patrolled at Pukeatua, Owairaka Valley, Parawera, Korakonui, Kio Kio East, Te Rore. Paterangi, Lower Ohaupo, Kaipaki, Ngahinepouri Road, Kihikihi, Te Rahu, and Hairini circuits. The peak load to date for the present quarter is 2496.8 k.v.a., 2322 k.w., .93 p.f. For the past eight weeks the Public Works Department unit allocation has been exceeded, and the weekly excesses were 2.04, 2.18, 2.34, 2.16, 2.1, l. 0.81, and 2 02 per cent. The earth leakage relay batteries at Te Kawa sub-station received attention and a faulty potential instrument transformer at Tokanui sub-sta-tion vras replaced. The oil in 24 transformers was changed, and 2435 gallons of oil were dehydrated. Three transformers were changed to suit loading conditions, and loading tests on transformers were continued. Two lamps at Te Awamutu and one at Pirongia were replaced on street lighting circuits. Nine service lines were erected and a numbr repaired or altered; 106 service lines were overhauled, 13 services were re-connected and 29 disconnected.

The usual fault work has been carried out, and trees and hedges that were a hazard to lines were trimmed. With our limited staff the work entailed trimming trees and hedges on road lines is getting beyond our capacity, and the time lost doing this precludes our doing other urgent maintenance work.

The vehicles travelled 9558 miles during the period. The reports were adopted.