POWER BOARD

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1577, 22 November 1924, Page 5

POWER BOARD

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GENERAL ’ j BUSINESS.

Mr J. T. Johnson presided at the monthly meeting of . the Te VVAwamutu Electric Power Board on Friday: 1 Also present were: Messrs Sjfinley, J. G. Sutherland, C. G. A. L. Storey, F. S. Parlane, S: C. Macky and the secretary-manager Ir 0. McArthur'. ",

A draft agreement was. submitted by the Central Power Board in connection with the supply of electricity by the Te Awamutu Board to Mrs Pennikett’s property just inside ' the Central Board’s area beyond Ohaupo. The chairman said supply could be .given much more economically by Te Awamutu Board than by the Central Board; hence the proposal.—Approved. The secretary, Te Awamutu Chamber of Commerce, intimated that a propo~sal is under consideration for the publication of an illustrated booklet descriptive of Te Awamutu and district. It is desired that the Power Board aid in this proposal and subsidise the -cost of a publicity scheme in which .a section could be devoted to hydroelectric power services. A conference -of delegates could go into details’. Mr Sutherland suggested that the manager should represent the Board on the Chamber’s publicity sub-com-anittee, but Mr McArthur stated he is already a committeeman. He asked to what. extent the Board was prepared to subsidise the booklet. The Board had indicated a limit of expenditure on publicity. The m'anager said the expenditure •-so far was well below the limit set. Members agreed that the project was an attractive one, but the'subsidy would have to be commensurate with the space devoted to electricity and. the Board’s affairs in the booklet. Mr Downes mentioned that the booklet was a district scheme; the Chamber of Commerce was fathering it. • * On the motion of the chairman and Mr Spinley, the manager was appointved the Board’s delegate. , >.

Re the Borough Engineer’s inquiry last month as to the probable cost of electrically heating water in the municipal swimming baths, about 114,000 .gallons, from 60deg. to say 84 deg. Fahr., the manager reported having written to several quarters. The most informative reply yet to hand was that ■from Mr F. de Latour, A.M.1.E.E., Gisborne, who gave details -of the principle, the capacity and cost of a "“heat pump” designed by himself. After explaining the capacity and principles, Mr de Latour wrote; “The plant • used is standard refrigeration mai chinery with suction coils in the at- • • mosphere and condenser coils in-the water "of the. bath. - The same plant -" -may be used if desired for ice-making -or cold storage.. The first cost of the plant:is. somewhat heavy if the work is to be done in seven hours instead -of throughout the day, but the running •cost (including interest) is very small. Thus the cost necessary, vith ordinary boiler efficiencies to heat the bath would not be less than 70001bs. of ■ coal or over six tons, which at £2 10s would cost £ls unstoked. The electric city cost at Id per unit is 30s. The -value of a plant to heat the full bath fin seven hours would be approximately £2500, and would be driven by a motor of 75 horse power." If it is permissible to empty and add half the water only per day the cost would be jabout £1750, and power requirement 45h.p. I wiil be glad to obtain firm prices and guarantees for you or the Borough Council if the latter is prepared to face the expenditure suggested above.” The manager stated that the undertaking was too large for the Board to assume. i. The executive committee recomena■ed that the correspondence be forwarded to the Borough CouncilAgreed to. Mr Downes remarked that a scheme adopted at Christchurch had cost about £3OO to install and £6OO a year to maintain * at a rate of one-twenty-seventh of a penny per unit. The chairman of the Finance Committee, Mr Sutherland, reported that at date the power fund account stands at £6883 11s 3d dr., and the loan account at £3 16s 3d cr. (Accounts totalling £753 19s 4d were presented. Revenue from the sale of current m September was £1330 6s 4d. An offer to sell the and equip4onent of a private telephone line was received from Mr Andrew Kay, but-the Board decided that the material would mot be useful to it and thus the offer was declined. ; Advice was received that 195 poles -from Australia had arrived in Auckland. The agents added: “These will he forwarded immediately. As a matter of fact the whole of your order was ready at Newcastle for shipment, but the balance was shut, out of the ship and will be loaded on the next •vessel.” —Received. , /, The N-.Z. Co-op Dairy Co., forwarded three grading depot report sheets from the Waharoa milk powder factory,; to Indicate what happens in the case oi interruption in the supply of electric power to the factories. The re P9 rt ® showed that the product was graded third and fourth grade.—Received, The Dannevirke Electric Power Board wrote thanking the manager for courtesies extended to the Dannevirke inspector during his recent visit. Received. Mr E W. Anderson, Te Rore, wrote giving the Board authority to erect a line across his property to supply residents on Anderson’s road.— Accept’ed Tlie Board’s solicitors reported haviEJ#obtained judgment against severaFdebtors at the S.M. Court .on Thursday, while in the case of eight others the amounts were either paid into Court or the solicitors after the summonses were issued.— Approved.

The question of how much drink a man can stand without arriving home in a drunken condition was debated at length during the hearing of a case in the Invercargill Magistrate s Com (reports the Southland Times). Ive been pretty far gone but I’ve always ■managed to sober up after a ten minutes’ walk in the fresh air, stated one candid witness. “Yes, but you can stand a good bit of liquor,” suggeslted cross examining counsel. “Oh, no, replied witness, “about four drinks and I'm gone. Still,” he added, Ive always been able to get control of myself by the time I reached' home.