TARANAKI POWER BOARD

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1931, Page 9

TARANAKI POWER BOARD

RECORD MAXIMUM OUTPUT.

COST OF TREE-GUTTING.

The monthly meeting of the Taranaki Power Board yesterday was attended by Messrs. H. G. Carman (chairman), N. H. Moss, H- J. l hl arc l l ' a nt, M. JGernhoefer, C. E. McGuinness, R. J. Knuckey and J. Dobson. The engineer, Mr. B. H. Goldsmith, reported that the number of consumers at December 31 was 2103. The units generated .during, December totalled 1,043,000. The largest daily output was 45,900 units on December 15, and the maximum demand of 2916 k.w. occurred on December 13. New Plymouth drew supply on 23 days of the month. It ’was interesting to note that the maximum day’s output of 45,900 units constituted a record for the power station, exceeding the previous record by the large margin of 3000 unite. The month’s total of unite was also a record by a smaller margin. Installations connected during the month were as follows, figures for the corresponding period last. year i being given in parentheses: Milking motors. 3 fl 4), other motors 2 (2), stoves 1 (5), water heaters 3 (10), pumps 1 (3), lighting and heating 10 (32). A return on the cost of tree-cutting from April to December 18 showed that the work had cost £466 14s 3d. The engineer reported that two further battery chargers of the vibrator type had been located. In each case the charger was found in a district from which complaints of interference had been received. In one case when t 1 ’ ’ charger was- started it was found that it was the cause of serious interference in the radio set of another consumer. It appeared that these devices might account for quite a number of the complaints received. Mr. Marchant said this was a matter for the Telegraph Department to deal with. While acting as trouble finders in regard to their own system the board should not go any further. It was resolved to draw the attention of the department to th 6 existence of the chargers. DONOVAN FIGHTS BLAY NUMEROUS MATCHES AHEAD. Tommy Donovan will leave to-morrow for Wellington, where he will meet Blay, the Australian boxer who created such a favourable hnpression on his first.appearance this week, when he defeated Johnny Leckie. With consistent regularity Tommy, who now holds the New Zealand featherweight title, has risen to the occasion to meet and defeat the best. that lias come along, and his supporters in Taranaki expect him to do the same on Wednesday night. Donovan has a busy time ahead. Eight days after the Blay fight he meets Jack Jones, Hawera, at Stratford, and as he is allowing the Welsh champion to scale 9st. 91b., thus . conceding considerable avoirdupois, his task will be no light one. Eight days later at Gisborne he meets Johnny Leckie again. About the middle of February the return bout with Blay will probably be staged at New Plymouth.

With the Wellington association also bringing out featherweights from America, Donovan can look forward to a busy time, as the champion and Johnny Leckie appear to be the only Dominion featherweights capable of extending visitors of class.