ELECTRIC POWER.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1923, Page 4

ELECTRIC POWER.

IMPORTANCE TO FARMERS. Engaged on a tour of various hydroelectric power schemes in Taranaki, Mr. E. Pprry, late chief electrical engineer of the Public Works Department and now engin-eer-in-chief of the English Electrical Company, passed through New Plymouth yesterday. He was accompanied by Messrs. McFarlane and Herbert, the heads of the company’s Wellington and Sydney offices respectively The party motored from Wanganui, via Opunake, on Sunday, and yesterday morning visited the New Plymouth Borough Council’s hydro-electric works at Mangorei. They left later in the day in continuance of a tour which will embrace visits to Stratford, Hawera, Wanganui, Marton, Napier, Taupo, Arapuni, Hora Hora, Cambridge,' Hamilton and Auckland. In the course of a short chat with a Daily News representative, Mr. Parry expressed the belief that the electiric era had arrived. In a few short years, the demand for power had increased threefold and to-day this demand was difficult to meet. From a farmers’ point of view, electrical development meant a great thing as benzine engines could be replaced by electri-cally-driven machines, which were less costly to maintain.