BAY POWER BOARD
ENGINEER MffNAJGEP.’S REPORT The ..following report Avas presented: for-the .months oi' April and May, by Mr. J. D. Dicker, engineer-man-ager, at the meeting of the .Hay of Plenty Power Board, held on Tuesday : Dine .Erection.—l4B.B route chains 11,000 volt lines. IP. 13 route, chains 400 volt on 11,000 volt lines, 47.26 route chains 400 volt lines. Pole positions altered on short 11,000 volt branch line to paper mills pumps. Also erected 1 100 k.v.a., .1 30 k.v.a., 1 25 k.v.a., 2 15 k.v.a., 2 10 k.v.a. and 1 5 k.v.a. transformers. Dines Dismantled: 33 route , chains 11,000 volt-lines. 19.4 route chains, 400 volt on 11,000 volt lines. ■ 20.5 route chains 400 volt lines. Also removed 1 150 k.v.a.a, 1 100 k.v.a.a, 1 '3O k.v.a.a, 2 lo> k.v.a.a, 1 10 k.v.a. and 1 5' k.v.a. transformers.
Pole No. 2 Dunn’s branch, Manawalie shifted and lines lowered to allow sufficient clearance for the PAY. D. duplicate line.
Consumers’ Service Dines; 36 new service lines completed totalling 102.17 route chains of lines., Also 5 service lines, dismantled amounting to 17.53 route chains of line:- j . Line Maintenance :-Tree cutting has been continued over a number of sections. One air break 11,000 volt switch
replaced on Matata-Eangitaiki feeder tie line. During •, the above period i. total of nine interruptions occurred on sections oif the board’s reticulation, and were attributed to the following causes: 3—birds.. I—-broken insulator. 1- a piece of wire had been thrown on to the power lines. I—broken line. 2- —blue gum bark.
217 consumers’ service lines have been inspected, and overhauled and repaired where required. Consumers Connected to 31st. May, 1939 (during the past months, April and May).-—Ranges o k.w.. and over, 3 now connections, 2 re-connections, 4 disconnections, 596 total; to date, 552 corresponding period 1968. Ranges, 2 k.w. up to 5 k.w., 5, O', 0, 87, 71. Total ranges, 11, 2,4, 683, 623. Motors (excluding milking ancll bulk supply, 9,0, 1, 172, 115. Shops and offices, 3, 5,1, 247, 230. Houses, 25, 11, 24, 1,780, 1594. Pumps, 7,1, 1, 451. 387. llairy' water heaters 0,0, 4, 556, 535. Domestic! water heaters, 8,3 : , G, 674, 613. 'Total water-heaters, 8 V 3, 10, 1170, 1153. Milking plants, 0,1, 4, 661, 627. Separator motors, 1,0, -, 368, 31'3. Total consumers, 28, 15, 17, 2020, 1817. Total connected load k.w. 8975 k.w., 8225 k.w. . P.W.J). Shipply: For tlie above two months there was one shut-down totalling; 4 hours 20 minutes.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 195, 16 June 1939, Page 4
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409BAY POWER BOARD Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 195, 16 June 1939, Page 4
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