LOCAL & GENERAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Napier Power Supply. Ihirther negotiations regarding the bulk supply of electricity to the Napier Borough Council from the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board are shortly to be made. At the meeting of the board yesterday it was decided to place the negotiations in the hands of the finance committee. . Abnormai Peaki. Abnormal electricity peaks due to the use of the special Coronation illuminations are to be disregarded for the purpose of computing the quarterly power account by the Public Works Department. Information to this effect was received at the meeting of the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board yesterday from the Chief ElectricaJ £ngineer of the Public Works Department, Wellington. Ready In November. The office and store buildings of the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board in Hastings are expeeted to be ready for occupation in October or November, when the head office of the board wili be transferred from Napier to Hastings. It is probable that the store will be ready earlier than the offices Havelock Power. The amount outstanding of the Havelock North Town Board 's power !oan as at March 3, 1937, is shown at £10,500 in the annual report of the Hawke's' Bay Electric Power Board, presented at the annual meeting yesterday. This is the purchase priee to be paid by the board for the electrical undertaking in Havelock North. Power Poles. On board the Gabriella, which has been delayed for some days in her arrival at Napier from Australian ports, are 188 poles for the Hawke's Bay Electric Power Board. These poles, which are suitable for ha gh- tension lines, are sufficient for between eight and nine miles of lines, and in view of the delay and difficulty in obtaining the delivery of the poles it is expected that they will be put intn "se immediately. Naval Strength. "I saw the naval revieu at Spithead at the Jubilee celebratious," said (Jommander L. C. P. Tudway, commander of H.M.S. Leith, in an address to the Napier GirZs' High School at the Coronation service there this morning, "and it was humiliating to see how few ehips we could parade. What there were were obsolete, but, as you know, the numbers are being increased now, and the position will soon be altered. There will be probably between 300 and 400 ships, including those from other nations, at the review on Thursday."

Royal Memento. A definite' link between the Coronation celebrations at the Hastings West School and Their Majesties the King and Queen was formed yesterday when Mr P. H. Tomoana visited the school and showed to the pupils a walkingstick which had been presented to Hawke's Bay by Their Majesties on the occasion of their visit to Hastings as the Duke and Duchess of York some 10 years ago. Mr Tomoana explained that the stick was presented to the provinoe as a memento of that visit and had afterwards been placed in his keeping on trust.