HAVELOCK ELECTRICITY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 89, 1 May 1937, Page 6

HAVELOCK ELECTRICITY

Power Board's Difficulties SHUT-P0WNS FOR TIME - YET "The, board has done a vast amount of wo'rk; in'"fhe"Village sih.ee at took over . th'e » eleetric "supply, but I °am afraid the people .there will- have to- pht up .with -the' shut-dpwp. of three • or f our niinuf es eacli evening for. a .little while yet, "but eventually I do not thinlc there will be any further trouble," said Mr H. -H. • Wylie,- secretary of the Hawke's Bay, Eleetric' Power, Board, yesterday, when, in the course of, an.. address -to the Hastings Rotary Club, he made reference to" the- breakdown ' in the power supply at Havelock North. *Mr -Wylie said that- the board tookOA'er the eervice from the Town Board at a bad time, for -the « leaves were falling. heavily at the dam and caused the sereen to block. Having realised the position, the board had arranged for an 11,000- voltage line to be taken along the Mangateretere road to Havelock Ao-th v/here it will be transformed to the smaller voltage' liri.es, and the reticulUlion would be llnked' up with this service: • as- well as tliat from Maraetotara.. . . •• • • ■ 1 'Havelock -North -will have both- the Government hydro power anch that -oi Maraetotara, and it will take only- a f ew ininutes to switc'li over ;f rojn one co the- other, '1. said Mr Wylie, ".It has been necessary to shut-.down in (he evenings and put. Havelock on to the Goyexmnient hydro, so as to allow. the yrater »to accumulate at tlie dam and for the , leayes to be washed over th*> rrrn of the dam, and we will have tt , "'iptimje doing so yet" for a time X '.v afraid,' '. , . ' , >