BROKEN INSULATORS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3013, 20 March 1926, Page 3

BROKEN INSULATORS.

POWER BOARD OFFERS REWARD.

The governing members of Power Boards throughout New Zealand are being continually faced with the question of dealing with the miscreants who delight in extending the risks already inherent in high voltages by choosing the insulators as targets for rifle bullets, the Horowhenua Power Board being no means an exception. At the monthly meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board, held on Tuesday last, the chairman, Mr. G. A. Monk, said it was to be very much regretted that someone had been firing at the Board’s insulators. Investigations had been made, but it was a very difficult matter to sheet home this sort of thing, and he thought the Board would have to consider offering a reward for information leading to the conviction of those concerned. It was not so .much the damage, as the inconvenience to staff and a large number of consumers on the particular line affected, and the speaker said it was hard to imagine the type of mind that would do that sort of thing. He thought the Arms Act might be more strictly enforced. An insulator which had been so damaged was produced by the Engineer (Mr. J. A. Smith) for the Board’s inspection, which clearly showed that the damage had been no mere accident, but a deliberately aimed shot from a rifle.

Mi’. Gunning moved, and it was seconded by Mr. Matheson, that in view of the fact that damage was being done to the Board’s lines, there should be a standing offer of £lO reward for the conviction of people found doing such damage.

The motion was unanimously car•icd. —Chronicle.