PRESERVATION OF POLES

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4837, 1 June 1925, Page 2

PRESERVATION OF POLES

POWER BOARD’S EXPERIMENTS. REPORT BY ENGINEER. For some time past the Thames Valley Electric Power Board has been conducting experiments in the preservation of poles. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Board the following report was submitted by the resident engineer (Mr N. G. McLeod) :— "The planting of poles received from the Forestry Department in December, 1924, has now been completed. The poles have been set in the section placed at the board’s disposal by Mr F. M. Strange at his property at. Mangaiti. Six specimens of euoalypt grown at Rotorua have been used, and they have been submitted to the following treatments. The report then detailed the various treatments of poles, and continued : “One hundred and three sections of timber have been set in the ground to a depth of sft, and check sections of each class have been provided without treatment. In spection of the timbers to ascertain their behave ur under the different treatmeiist will be made from time to time, and a complete record will be kept of the results.”

Mr McLeod wits heartily thanked for his report, and it we® decided that the members would pay a visit of inspection after the next board meeting.