POWER BOARD.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20183, 11 March 1931, Page 3

POWER BOARD.

1 ▼ ~ i SPRINGS-ELLESMERE. The monthly meeting of the EUesmero Electric Power Board was held at on Monday, there were preeeilti —Messrs (chainnan) fi Ai s£', jbangdale Hunt, JjJ. H. Bowell,' Ot McMillan. - f"' J *. * r The financial'statemonV'shotred 'the balances 'as .follows 1 : —Power." |undi> s credit '£2004 4s fid; No. 2 loan, credit £4O 16s: No, 3 loan, credit £2294 16s. Sd; No. loan, credit £B2B 3a 7d. , The engineer's report stated 1 that, the , maximum, demand fcfi :th£.mflnthi had been 1168," kilowatts*, as', .againßt■ 1219 kilowatts for January/ , The units purchased totalled- 437,630, "the units' sold 879,334, the sales and installations amounted to. £B4 19s 4d,'' and the sales of, current £lß9l <l4s' ld.?\; t tTKe inspector reported that fourteen ' l( ad-. ditipns aid '- extensions: l toHhe , mollis had been rtiade, The additional load for .February was 4120 .kilowatts ■ sforlighting, 19,140 for heatings and £500; for power, making a total' n«t of 14,270 kilowatts. \ # ' Hunt : inspected the Board's' cottage at _ -Temp^eJbQn u which required )»me repairs. -' i Ifc left to Messrs Hunt ana 3M aginnesg to have the imp'fov^taente; oamed, out; ,v ' Mr V; G. Miieon was .promoted to. the'position of 'accountant.* ,k • T" The chairman' stated, ithat the line along the Leeston-lLakeiside road' was? not satisfactoiy. Apparently.lJie,.load' hadv increased' considerably* since ithe, line was erected, ; seemed too lo\v. s ». • . r ,, The engineer said it ifas j?ropaWe> that, the line was not now of sufficient' capacity, and h,e intended to inVesti--gate. ' ( i " j SoiffV# yhe' inconvenience .occasioned by ,eut* ting off the current in Paparua "it weelc-dnds ,for„ line .alterations >'» wo«' mentioned by Messrs Maginness Hunt.' The' Board .decided' to' 3 pursu<? enquiries with a view tp securing "plant to jobriate 'as, mudh as (possible s <thb,;-3n-i convenience. ' - An offer to sell to the Boara -cer? tain : . cohdensers recently (loaned it to replace ,one which out, action was accepted, the price, being t The chairman reminded members, ot the poll to be takfcn on M&'rch *3stn, on, a proposal to raise a loan x °j £25,000, part of which is to used for the purchase of the Tai. Dairy Company's reticulation and par® for 1 further extension work'throughout the whole of the power" district, (