ELECTRIC POWER

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5160, 3 August 1927, Page 2

ELECTRIC POWER

THAMES VALLEY BOARD MEETING. routine business. The monthly meeting bf the Thames Valley Electric Power Board was held at To Aroha yesterday, the chairman (Mr F. M. Strange) presiding ovdr Messrs H. M. Corbett, F. E. Flatt, «. E. G. Willy, G. Howie, J. Pohlen, J. W. McCormick, J. Price, J. W. Anderson, J. B. Thomas, H. R. Bush, C. A. Arthur. R. Sprague (manager) and N. G. McLeod (engineer). KEREPEEHI SUBSTATION. The electrical branch of the Public Works Department wrote advising that it was proposed to have a regular attendant stationed at the temporary substation at Kerepeehi. The board was asked to forward a statement showing weekly units and maximum k.w. and k.v_a. demand on the substation. In the eweht of a fault occurring on the line or in the trans'former the department required to know if the board’s troubleman would be available to act under instructions from the operators at Waikino and carry out the sectionalising required. To Mr Flatt the engineer said it did not entail much work, and was only a temporary arrangement.

Mr Price: Will you charge them on a butter-fat basis ’

Mr McLeod replied that all it meant was a reading of the meter once a week.

The chairman said the arrangement was only a temporary onei, and in any ease it was policy to assist the department.

Mr Willy thought there was an inference that the duties might become a permanent one).

The engineer did not agree, and stated that the meters were the property of the board, and. would have* to be read in any case.

It was decided to comply with the request.

APPLICATION FORMS. The District Stamp Duties Office wrote asking for a form of application by intending customers for the supply of electric power, in order that it might be ascertained whether, when executed, the form would be liable to stamp duty as an agreement. In a later letter the Stamp Duties Department advised that when executed the application form was liable to a stamp duty of Is 3d, as provided for in section 154 (2) of the Stamp Duties Act 1923.

The chairman said that the matter would be well thrashed out at the Power Boards’ Conference.

WAITOA WAY LEAVE. The N.Z. Co-operative Dairy Co., Hamilton, wrote granting permission to run the power line through its property at Waitoa. subject to a condition that the board was prepared to defray the cost of moving tihe company’s- wireless aerial, situated over the Y.M.C.A., so that the power-line would not run parallel with the aerial and interfere with the reception. The chairman stated that the work had been carried out and the; provision complied with satisfactorily. POWER FOR MARATOTO. The- Ohinemuri Gold and Silver Mines, Ltd., wrote thanking the board for the promptitude displayed in finalising matters for the provision of power to Maratoto upon receipt of the company’s bond. CARTAGE ON MARATOTO ROAD. The Ohinemuri County Council wrote with reference to the carting of power poles on Maratoto Road, and pointed out that the road in question had been classified as a fourth-class road. Such classification limited the load to be carried on it, even in summer time, to four - tons, including the weight of the vehicle, and heavy traffic in the winter months was prohibited. The council, (however, recognised the urgent nature of the* carting which the board required to do and would be prepared to allow the carting to be carried out provided the board would give a.n undertaking to make good any damage done to the road, so that when the carting was finished the road should not, in the opinion of the county engineer, be in any worse condition than it was fit present.

To Mr Flatt the chairman said that th© board would not start the work unless the road was in a passable’ condition.

The matter was referred to the engineer and manager, with power to act. CHARGES FOR POWER. The' Central Power Board, Hamilton, wrote forwarding a copy of a letter received from the Minister of Public Works in which it was stated that the question of charges for electricity would be gone into carefully when the department had completed arrangements for the purchase of additional plantT'The department would then be jn a better position to state what additional charge, if any, would be made.

The chairman said that an attempt ‘had been made to feel the pulse of adjacent boards. - Personally he did not think there would be any extra

charge. RESIGNATION OF OFFICER.

Mr H. J. Hancock, salesman, Te Aroha, tendered his resignation as from August. On the motioil of Mr Flatt it was decided to accept the resignation with that a letter be forwarded to Mr Hancock thanking him for the valuable services he had rendered to the board. SERVICES APPRECIATED.

The following letter was received from Mr L. C. Marchant, Ngatea:— “Many thanks for your reply to my letter with reference to charges for pump, the contents of which I will pfiss on to the other settlers. I would like to say that I think the majority of us, are well satisfied, with your treatment, and, personally, I aan more than that, it being a different world since we have had the power for our house, sned ( and pump.” Received with appreciation.