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HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

ENGLISH EXPERT’S VIEWS - "NEW. ZEALAND’S MOST ■VALUABLE ASSET."

"Wherever it is commercially praonoSeaseo/" This'is the opinion in re nydro-eleotrio power of sir Arnold bn hw K BJ3 a prominent British elec rtTcal engineer, £ho * mlaU? whilKAn-Ghristchurch withrthe development that has taken dace in that town, and observed to a Christchurch. "SunA representative the other day that tho-load faction at church, having regard to the charac . tenietics of .the town, was one of the highest he knew of m any, part of the world- Sir Arnold was knighted in recognition of his war work binder the British Government. .He the Ministry of Munitions as Controller of Electric Povver, Suppli«k a position which- embraced the nirection of6<)o public supply undertakings, and about S) electrical plant-manufacturing &rmsrpVio visitor - was. over anotner peiiou, trice! Adviser to the Home Seoretary and the Ministry of Transport. IB relinquished his.. Government Unties on March 31st. 1920. and sailed for New Zealand the same day, partly on holida , and ..partly to study &e probable development of and transmiseion with on eye to bust ness. This is his first visit to the Dominion.

A "BOLDER" POLICY. ■ After inspecting the Lake Coleridge vdrka -on Friday last Sir Arnold said that- they -had been well planned ano The ojlr W where-one oooild criticise was that -it would have been better to have adopted a -bolder policy at the outset, and to have "gone” for at least double the present supply. .The lesson to be learned frbm the wonderful success of the scheme was that the future policy of the department should 'be a little bolder. The visitor expressed the opinion that probably 25/100 h.p. would be available trom Coleridge when the Harper rivei was diverted into the lake, but he was not sufficiently acquainted with hydroelectric, nor "with the local conditions, to eav whether the new supply of water would- keep the lake up to its normal level, when the quantity drawn on was increased.- * Discussing the proposed electrification of the Arthur’s Pass, tunnel. Sir Arnold Gridley said that it would be the only possible war to operate trams passing from one coast to the other.

ELECTRIC TRANSPORT. An regards electric transport, the visitor claims that the rail has the advantage overovem the, concrete road. There could, he said, : be Vndgetting away from the fact that'a steel wheel on a steel rail-took-first- place ha a means of locomotion. Electrification of most railways would come in time- Probably the whole of the main lines in Croat Britain would justify . conversion from steam to electricity, now, if the mono? to carry out the work could be secured. Already the;, North-Eastern Railway Company had decided to electrify its main line from Berwick to, York, a distance of about 140 miles, • The trains would be drawn by electric locomotives, working on current supplied by public utility companies. Several other main lino electrification schemes were under consideration by the Ministry of Transport. It would be foolish -to thank oi electrifying all the linee of New Zea land at once, but all.-railway extensions, tunnels; and the like should be planned with a view to their ultimate electrification,' so that unnecessary cost might be saved' when the time came for conversion. There ‘was a definite field, of usefulness before the electric road vehicle, which was mainly confined to short-dis-tance journeys.' The-weight of storage battery that could bn carried limited its size, and,"dorr6spondinplr,' its electrical output. The heavier the battery the longer the journey, but the lighter the load that could be carried. It is recognised at Home that New Zealand has great potentialities in the wav r of water; power: and British manufacturing firms are anxious ;to cultivate this market. - That is one reason why Sir Arnold intends spending some months ip the Dominion before he crosses to Australia.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 10

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HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 10

HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10615, 14 June 1920, Page 10

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