BROKEN INSULATORS.

Shannon News, 19 March 1926, Page 3

BROKEN INSULATORS.

POWER BOARD OFFERS REWARD. The governing mienrbars of 'Power Boards throughout New Zealand are being continually laced with the question of dealing with the miscreants who delight in extending the risks already inherent in high voltages by choosing the insulators as targets for rifle toilets, the Horowhenua Power' Board being by no means an exception. At> the monthly meeting of the Horowhenua Power Board, held on Tuesday last, the chairman, Mr «G. A. Monk, said ,it was to. be very much regretted that someone had been firing at the Board's insulators. Investigations had been made but it was a very difficult matter- to sheet' home this sort of .thing, and 1 he thought the Board would have to consider offering a reward for information leading to the conviction of those concerned. It was not so much the damage, as the inconvenience to the staff and a large number of consumers on the particular line affected, and .the speaker said it was hard to imagine the type of mind that would do that sort of thing. He thought the Arms Act might be more strictly enforced.

A insulator which had been so damaged wa.3 produced by the Engineer (Mr J. A. Smith) for the Board's inspection, which clearly showed that the damage had been no mere accident but a deliberately-aimed shot from a rifle. Mr Gunning moved, and it was seconded by Mr Matheson, that in view of- the tact that damage was being done to the Board's lines, there should be; a standing offer 1 of £lO reward for the conviction of people found doing such damage. The motion • was unanimously carried.