DEMOLITION STARTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 232, 1 October 1928, Page 8

DEMOLITION STARTED.

DEVONPORT POWER PLANT.

MEETING OF WAITEMATA BOARD. PROGRESS WITH WORKS. Within six weeks the Devonport steam plant, which for many years met the electrical demands of North Shore boroughs, will be well on the way to demolition. At to-day's meeting of the Waitemata Electric Power Board, the acceptance of the tender of Mr. W. McKie for the purchase of two 170 b.h.p. horizontal gas engines, with connections and spare parts at £51 each, and for a panel switchboard at a cost of £8, was approved. Further tenders will be callcd at the expiration of six weeks for the sale of the balance of the plant and machinery and the travelling crane installed at the old station. The task of wrecking the plant has already been commenced. Reporting upon progress made with works during September, the engineer (Mr. F. J. H. Wilson) stated that pole erecting on the Nihotupu extension was now complete. High tension wiring had been finished and two transformer platforms built. Supply would be available from Waiatarua to the end of the line within a few days. A transformer to supply consumers in the Massey district had been installed on the main line, and the necessary low tension wiring done. On the Helensville section, the high tension extension to Stony Creek at Kaukapakapa had been completed, and the low tension line wired. The transformer was now being installed, and the lino would be livened within the next few days. Good progress wag being made with the Greenhithe extension, despite the fact that recent boisterous weather had curtailed the carting of poles. High tension wiring had been commenced.