HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 5

HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

TJIK MANGAHAO SCHEME. (Prom Our Special Correspondent.) Palmerston North, December 2. Mr. L. Birks, chief electrical engineer fo the Public Works Department, _ lifts been in the Afanawnt'i district giving particulars to local bodies as to reticulation- The Palmerston North Borough Com .oil and several other local bodies are at Diesent onceavouring to arrango for l.ho necessary reticulation to be done in their district.; bv the time that power is available from the -Mangahao, in order that ho time may bp lost in making use of the power and light. Mr. Birks pointed out that nn.T exnenditure undertaken by local enterprise in the erection of lines ftml poles for reticulation would hold good when Uio electric liclit and power from Mitngahao came throneh. Some of tlio larger dairy companies in the Munawatu district wero alrwifiv considering the fjucstion of reticulation. and as ati object-lesson he pointed to the work done by the lai Tapu Co-operative Dairy Company, n (,'liristchiireli. in distributing light and power under the Coleridge scheme. That company had started with a plan for Biuinlvinir about thirteen houses, and it now distributed over a radius of five miles. The scheiv.e was undertaken primarily for the convenience of suppliers in nrovioiiiir for alt the benefits of cheap liuht and power afforded by electricilv. ami it had proved so Fuceesstul flint fresh suppliers had been drawn to tlio district, thus considerably imgnientiiiL' the main business of the company.