SHORTAGE OF POLES.
POWER BOARD’S DILEMMA. CONCRETE ADVOCATED. ! Severe floods in Australia have rcsuit'd iu a delay in tho exportation of hardwood lumber used for power poles, and power hoards throughout New Zealand have been handicapped in 1 licit- work. The Waikato Central Power Board is still short of poles, and only short supplies are being received. The secretary-manager, Mr J. R. Ellis, said at I lie board’s meeting yesterday, that New Zealand silver pine would he ■satisfactory for power poles, but it was difficult to obtain the genuine silver pine wood. Mr \Y. Henry advocated that New Zealand should rely on concrete poles, which could be economically made iu Ihe Dominion. Concrete poles were adequately serviceable for New Zealand conditions, he considered. Pome power boards in New Zealand already relied on concrete poles.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 11
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