LOWER RAINFALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 216, 11 September 1940, Page 10

LOWER RAINFALL.

SUPPLIES OF POWER. STEAM-PLANT KEPT BUSY. Lower rainfall this year has affected tile hydro-electrical supply from Arapuni, and as a result, the King's wharf eteam-plant has been operating almost up to its maximum output for some time, in order to relieve the hydroelectrical stations throughout the North loland, and allow water to accumulate th w a ?r' J Potion applies also to the Wellington city generating plant, and other similar plants throughout -New Zealand. ewui, f« ln i r<l /^ n V 1" to the P° siti on in regard to electrical supplies, the general managei of the Auckland Electric Power tliis m •' iH" Bartle - v > nientioned tins morning that one supply authority in the boutli Island had received advice that 3,> miles of electric cable, ordered fiom abroad, had been lost at sea He r'llf f +i he P ; lef : trical Controller had a list of the stocks of cables held by supply authorities, traders and manufacturers, and had power under the emergency regulations to say how those cables should be used, and in a case of urgency a supply authority could be assisted from stocks in New Zealand. All supply authorities would be willin-r to make some sacrifice to help in a case of emergency.