Most Satisfactory.
The concreto poles being made in Waipukurau by the Central Hkwke's Bay PowOr Board withstOod the Piiblic Worlts Department 'e test most satisfactorily, aeeording to advice read at yesterday 's board meeting. The engineer, Mr G. L. Bcer, said that, though the tests only required a pole to withstand about 9001bs. pressure, some had tested as high aa 2,800 when ho had tried them out. One had gone at 2,000, but that had bcon the wfiakcst of all ke h»d tested.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 4
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