Local & General

Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1948, Page 4

Local & General

I Man Electrocuted. i | An employee of the Central I Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board I was electrocuted. while working on | a 11,000 volts distfibution line at 1 Takaparu. He was Mr. Bryan I Francis Bishop, 21" years, single, of j Waipukurau. Whijp tup a pole, he I touched a live wifd an'd f611'to the I ground. ' t;: •' c • :1 | Islets as Maori Reserve I Twenty-five islets in the Cavalli I Group, which lies" close off • the I North " Auckland coast- between | Whangaroa • ' and' the Bay of I Islands, have1 beeh' approved as a j Maori reservation.' ' The islands 1 ccntain Maori Lreehold lan'd, ! which will now be 'fqr the common ijuse of the people o f four North | Auckland sub-tribes. They will be I used particularly for taking f mutton-birds. | A Strange Fish, I Found dead on Ngamotu Beach, i New Plymouth, a- strange fish, | three feet long and jet black in ! colour, with large eyes and sharkI like teeth, and weighing about | 30 lbs. has provide'd the New Ply- | mouth fishermen with an identi- ! fication puzzle. Lines of small fins and ridgings; near the tail j gave experts wh.o examined it the impression that it. could swim at great speed. Maraetai Tunnel Pierced . | The main diversion tunnel at the j Maraetai hydro-electric works was pierced this week. To'day it is posI sible to crawl through the gap which links the two ends of the j huge 2000 ft. long and 25 ft. ! diameter curved tunnel, but it I will be early in the new year j before everything is in readiness I to divert the river through the tunnel and begin construction of the 200. ft. high 'dam, which will be twice as high as the one at Karapiro. When completed, Alaraetai * will generate 180,000 kilowatts, twice as much as Karapiro.