HYDRO-POWER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18415, 23 June 1925, Page 11

HYDRO-POWER.

ADDRESS BY MR H. FLESHER. <

'.'.Xlndej! the auspices of the "W.E.A.,. -au' address on "Hydro Electric Systems'' given last evening in? the Trades* - by Mr H. de JR. Flesher. Mr W.'Stewart presided. -Mr - Flesher spoke from the point of view of an economist, dealing-with the' ■eontroP and supply 67 .power/'The industry had' much scope : i : 6r daring adventure, and

I was progressing rapidly day by day, 'ss having numerous rivals. Alter dealing <& , with the system, of administration or la. the oowfir frqm Lake ' Coleridge, Mr Iter said'the Mangahao scheme '■■ never be a success as nearly £2,. 00 had been sunk before any r had been put out. The producof power must necessarily be cond and operated by the fctate, but iirae was not yet 4 opportune for State to undertake operations for traduction .of power, short discussion took place at this £ and replying to a question, tho •er said; that :; before ■ the -Lake idge scheme was. started there /some fairly ,;large-private- ■'enter--' i, in. New Zealand,' and three of • still existed. Hydro-power was nits infancy, and Canterbury was' withv Lake ■ Coleridge for.: bet- - fttfor worse. There were Co miles insmissibn.. line' between' Christ-. Wand Lake Coleridge and it was i|:'- from American experiments, in..the;near futurei powerlj :bV.;cony;eyetl;; on tho same ;.pritt-. as that used in wireless broad- : >fc- ' of the unit of control — Itate or a local body—was next with,: the lecturer saying that jgjs -,. population of New Zealand was |||p!n6fc evenly scattered. One third- were the four principal urban centres ;the market lay in the cities. The jSiytiflveflmient proposed to. levy a flat the Dominion, and Christr6h would bo the first to suffer. It ".Shot right that Christclrarch I lid have to pay for schemes elsere; that were not a success. Much -he cost of the Mangahao scheme Iclf have, to be written off beforo scheme would pay. The Lake Cole:a|£cheine could now be as iccess. continued the speaker, power •not consumed to a very great cx-;-;ih the country areas, due in a e measuio to tho system of repre■k%ion governing town, and country. metropolitan area a suitablo area for the establishitSiof Power Board control as the > land was great and power was a sssitv.

IsAtt.iho roncl«aion,.a discussion took WCet'bn the various, points of the ad-