WHAT TO AVOID.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1925, Page 4

WHAT TO AVOID.

DANDERS IX FSE OF. ELECTRICITY. f 'IIRI sTCHFRCH. Dvr. I T Sneaking on the subject *J ice congers and necessary precautions in the of okotriciiy at a meeting ol the Wo Jston Burgesses’ Association last night, Mr K. Hitchcock, general manager of the .Municipal Electricity Department. said that of late some very tragic oicurreiHes had been reported. It 'might he looked at as the priie which we had to pay for the w orlil's advance in eivilisatmu. Ihe human lace was being entrusted with more ; :j!,| still more anil greater l"i'ics ol nature. “Must- of these accidents," said Mr Hitchcock, "are due to carelessness. A lot of them are due to lallcn wires: a salient precaution is to avoid all lallett wires. With ranges and similar pines of domestic apparatus it •* best to use one hand only. ll two hands arc used, any snock received posses right through the hotly. I sunll v main switches are fitted, which simplify matters. It should also he mail,' a point to avoid any water pines. pi- ; , and wet II mi's when liand--1j,;,.* chet jii a I atijiaral n>. thousands Hi.' ra Id .vet 'use power now. and wiih perlccl safety. List there is no same in going cn u nil a new thing without altering our mental processes, anil app.lvini' part li alat" metliods to it. The consumer lias to know definitely ahoul Ihe pu.ver that lie iims. to avoid risk and use it- with intelligence, Ino insulation in modern elccvrical .ipuaiain, m now so good, and the methods used in manufacture an* so refined, that the gear can be used easily with just ordinary precautions. Monkeying with the fuses, using unduly thick wire when fuses keep blowing out. is an example ol dangerous bull-hoaded-iii".. Fuses are made comparatively \yjtls ;» |>i»r}»t»so, and l<> insert ihii-Kt.T ;uui v liil th’.ckvr 'vhv it r ko his;.s I:!t;w out, is quite wrong/’