DANGERS TO POWER LINES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1931, Page 2

DANGERS TO POWER LINES

BOARD ENGINEERS PROTEST. .PALMERSTON NORTH. August 11. “Proceedings should be taken against any person doing work that endangers cur lines, which are erected by statutory authority. Some of the local bodies’ employees think they can do as they like, and this hoard should take steps to protect its legal rights,” said the engineer, Mr W. A. Waters, at the meeting of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board yesterday. The engineer said that at the corner of M’akowhai factory recently a drain bad been cleaned out, and the blocking timber at the top of the drain had been dugout. This action had* been discovered when the pole had leaned over, bringing the wires perilously close to the Post and Telegraph Department’s main Auckland-Wellington circuits. “Any person doing such work ns digging earth away from poles or in any way interfering with a power line, is liable to a fine of £2O under Government Supply- regulations and this Board’s by-laws,” be added. Tn suggesting that the offences -should be brought under the notice of the local bodies- concerned, the chairman, Mr J. A. Nash, M.P., said that apart from loss and inconvenience to the board, the danger was a salient feature. It was decided to warn all drainage boards and local bodies in the district not to touch poles without the consent of the engineer.

replacing Great Britain for the first time. Italy took 1G,770,954 "bustiers in wheat alone while the United Kingdom took 14,922,823 bushels of wheat and, enough other grains to bring the total to l 16,1/3,800 bushels. Belgium, France and Holland followed in the order named. Total shipments of wheat from Montreal last season were 68,071,431 bushels, corn 4.260.279 bushels, barley 4.031,355 bushels, and oats 3,752,204 bushels, BIG ORDERS FOR TIMBER, The start- of a return to prosperity , f°r British Columbia’s great lumber in. idustryiis seen in the placing, of orders 'for 4,000,000 feet of mining timber for Australia, and; 1,500,000 railway crossing timbers for England. According to an official statement issued by the Hon. N. S. Lougheed, British Columbia’s Minister of Lands, the sale of the above quantity of mining timbers for Port Pirie in Australia is the first order of this nature received by British Columbia mills for , a number of years. The order for railway crossing timbers was secured from the London North Eastern Railway. The timber for both orders will have to he taken out of the woods and will not come out of existing stocks, and this fact is seen as having an important bearing on increasing activity in al] parts of the lumber industry. The Minister of Lands in announcing receipt of the orders, characterised it- as the best business news British Columbia lias heardi since the start of industrial depression. FIBRE BOARD MANUFACTURING.

Production is starting on a noninflammable wood fibre board at the plant of the International F'ibre Board, Limited, at Gatineau, .Quebec, five miles east of Ottawa. This is a new development in the provision of a fibre or pulp board |or building purposes which has been treated to render it fire-resisting, while at the same time the process is such that the hoard retains its heat-insulating qualities. The latter is a very important consideration, general practice in Canada being to insulate all new buildings against heat and cold. The non-inflammabel fibre board was perfected in the laboratories of the International Paper Company. The new structural material will he used both -lor wall and roof insulation and is expected to have a big field in cottage construction at summer resorts because of its fire proofiing quality.