HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40027, 23 November 1929, Page 4

HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

MEETING OF I-lOROWiHENUA

POWER BOARD

The monthly meeting of the Horowhonua Electric Power Board was held at Levin on Tuesday, there -being - present : Messrs G. A. Monk! (chairman), W. E. Barber, T. 'CI. Vincent, R. Bryant, A. E. Hyde, C. IBlenlkborn, A. J. Petheriek and A. -Seifert, Mr. P. W, Goldsmith (secretary and treasurer), and Mr. J, A. Smith (engineer). Leave of absence was granted to Mr. E. S. Morse. ADDITIONAL LAMP FORFOXTON BEACH. The secretary of the Foxton Harbour Board wrote asking for another street light to be installed at Manawatu Heads, the proposed site being in the vicinity of the corner of the -Sanatorium and All Saints’ Children’s Home, road. He requested that the matter be treated as one of urgency. ‘The Engineer stated that the extention required would comprise a couple of spans. He recommended that the wo(rk be undertaken. In answer to a question bv Mr. Barber, the Engineer said he thought that the installation could be made before the holidays. Authority was given -to the Engineer to instal the light asked for. TREASURER’S ‘REPORT. 'The following report by the Treasurer was adopted, on the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr. Seifert ' BALANCE-SHEET FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31st, 1929. -Since the previous -meeting of the Board the balance sheet for last year has come to hand from the Audit Office. There are no alterations; the balance-sheet and accompanying accounts are as presented to the Board prior to audit. The certificate of the Controller and Auditor-General reads as follows: “The Audit Office having examined the balance-sheet and accompanying accounts required by law to be audited, hereby certifies them to be correct.” The balancesheet is now available for inspectioii by members whenever desired. CASH TAKINGS FOR OCTOBER. The. cash takings for the month amounted to £6271, a considerable increase upon the receipts for the same month last year. Of this amount £5707 represents the receipts from electricity sales and includes many of the quarterly accounts. The following table' shows in detail how the receipts are made up for the first seven months of the present financial year:—

CASH RECEIPTS. October Tl. 7 mt-hs. Electricity £5707 £26,761 Penalties 23 191 Sundry debtors 476 2,916 Interest oirinstallations 16 99 Miscellaneous 47 476

£6271 £30,444 (-Shillings and pence omitted). ACCOUNTS.

The accounts for the meeting- for confirmation amount to £B4O 5/-, and to be passed for payment £2,144 12/-. The largest item to. be dealt with is that of interest, eto., tine to the Government Life Insurance Ojffiee in respect to the second £40,000 loan raised from that office. The. amount to be paid on November 30th for this obligation is £1350 10/5. Accounts chargeable to loan amount to nearly £SOO, the principal items being copper wire £2OO, insulators £7l, meters' £57, timber and poles £4B, fuses, etc., £25. I'he balance of the accounts include many sundries, and amongst them there is the benzine account of £52, the account for building the porch at the depot £25, and the Audit Inspector’s chatrges for the recent audit £53. FiNG'INEER’S REPORT. The engineer reported as follows for the period since the previous meeting of the Board: — Forty-two new service lines have been erected, extra phases run on 10 existing services, one service line extended, 138 poles have been titled and erected, and 998 chains of wire run on E.11.T. and L.T. lines. One outdoor substation has been erected, four street lamps changed to new positions and one extra street (amp erected at Parapa raumu Beach. ' - • iChief items of construction for the period are the extension of L.T. off Lady’s Mile, Fox ton; completion L.T. Kilsby’s Road, Koputaroa, and the building of the Makerua-Tane line. Extra phases have been run mi McDonald Road, Levin; Moana Road, Koromoki Street, Tasman Beach; and street lighting extended to Tasman and Paraparaumu Beaches. A short extension with heavy cable was made, from the sub-station, Foxton, to supply H. Boirry’s flaxmill. The usual general maintenance has been carried out throughout the whole area, and patrols have been done on the Levin-Foxton and the Waikanae-Paekakarilki lines and sub-stations. (Fifty-eight single-#>hase meters have been tested, and 16 singlephase and 4 polyphase meters repaired and re-tested. The usual maintenance to vehicles has been .carried out and one 11,000-volt switch panel completed and a Quantity of line material made up. (During the period power has been supplied to H. Berry’s flaxmill, Foxton, where a 40 h.p., 25 h.p., and a 10 h.p. have been installed, Mr. Petherick asked if anything had been done with reference to the lighting of the Paraparaumu Domain.

The Engineer stated that the only communication received was in re-

.gard to the lighting of the tennis ,courts. The Board’s secretary was obtaining further particulars.

Mr. Petheriek- stated that there 'v. ns talk of amalgamating the spoils and lighting the whole ring at night.