AUTOMATIC HOLE-DIGGER.
♦ In the hope of being able to effect a. saving of well over £SOOO in ore item of expenditure alone—that of digging holes—the Manawatu-Oroua Power - Board has instructed its engineer. Mr . Waters to proceed to Invercargill to , inspect a post hole-digging and erecting machine, and investigate it- possibilities on the spot. According to infor- • -nation already in possession of the board, the machine will dig a oft. post hole, hoist, tip a 35ft. ironbark pole, drop it into the ho!*, move 2; chair.?.. i and Commence digging the next hole, ail in the space of cigdit. lairitrte.-. The Southland Power Board has an outfit in operation, and the results bore- out the forgoing- cialm, The Oroua Power Board has estimated tfee cost for hard labour at lis 6d per bole, whereas it is claimed that the machine cuts the cost dowr. to 3.-. 6d per hole. As folly 20,000 poles are to be erected in the Mana-•watu-Oroua district, the extent of the prospective saving—eves after allowing for the cost ni the- machine —is very
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Otaki Mail, 11 September 1922, Page 2
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176AUTOMATIC HOLE-DIGGER. Otaki Mail, 11 September 1922, Page 2
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