A peculiar exhibit was placed before the Horowhenua Power Board by the Engineer (Mr. J. A. Smith) on Tuesday. It was an insulator containing a hole about an inch wide, made by a rifle bullet, and it demonstrated the risk to which the power lines are exposed where shooting is likely to be carried out with high-powered arms. The article was one of the plateshaped kind known as a “strain insulator,” and formerly did duty on the western bank of the Manawatu River, near the Shannon-Fox - ton Highway bridge. The Engineer stated that the effect of the shot was to reduce the insulating area -to that enclosed within the new circumference established by the presence of the bullet-hole, thus weakening the insulation.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40042, 21 December 1929, Page 1
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122Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40042, 21 December 1929, Page 1
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