HYORO-ELECTRICITY.

Shannon News, 21 October 1927, Page 4

HYORO-ELECTRICITY.

HOROWHENUA POWER BOARD.

The monthly ,meeting of the Horowhenua Electric Powc* Board was held in the Municipal Chambers on Tuesday, there being present: Messrs Monk (chairman), Barber, Vincent, Bryant, Morse, Blenkhorn, Petherick, Seifert, Gunning, Goldsmith (secretary) and Smith (engineer). TELEPHONE CHARGES.

In reply to an application" for certain telephones to be charged for at the residential rate, the Postmaster at Levin (Mr. B. Magee) wrote that Nos. 280 m and 280 s, Levin would be allowed to be used at residential rates. (These communicate respectively with the installation inspector and the line foreman.) The commercial rate would still be charged lor No. 89, Otaki. (An inspector is located there, but the telephone is used for business in the daytime.) Mr. Smith stated that it was explained to the postal authorities that the two Levin numbers mentioned were used mainly for emergency work at night and that these connections were for the benefit of the Postal Department's lines as well as those controlled by the Board.

The letter was received, with an expression of thanks for the concessions granted. INSTALMENT OF LOAN.

The Public Trustee wrote notifying the Board that the district manager had been instructed to pay £IOOO, representing a further instalment of the Board's £lO,-000 loan.

The secretary stated that the Board had drawn £4OOO, with this instalment. The letter was received. TREASURER'S REPORT.

The report of the treasurer (Mr. Goldsmith) contained the following information: — •

Accounts for payment. —In reviewing the accounts for payment, the most striking and most important item is the account from the Public Works Department for the electricity for the quarter ended 30th September, 1927. The highest peak for the quarter was on the morning of the 28th September between 11 and 11.30 o'clock, and the account is for 1923.53 k.v.a., the amount being £3947 Is 3d. For the same quarter in previous years the accounts were:—

It will thus be seen that the account is larger by £714 than the same quarter in 1926. Further accounts in the pay roll for the day amount to £978 5s 2d, and the total including the electricity account before mentioned is £4925 6s od. Of this sum the loan bears £474 8s 3d and the Power Fund the balance of £4450 18s 2d. The chief items of the expenditure, other than the electricity account, are for transformers, meters, fuses, water- heaters, wire, ranges, and tyres. Receipts.—-. The receipts for the month and the cash takings for the first half of the financial year are shown by the following table, also a comparison be-tween-this year's and last year's returns, shillings and pence omitted: —

Electricity and meter rents for the six months ended Sept. 30th, 1927, £19,912 lis sd; for the six months ended Sept. 30, 1926, £16,564 13s 8d; increase, £3347 17s 9d. It will thus be seen that for the electricity and meter rents £2849 has been paid during September, but the total receipts under this head for the first six months of the year did not quite reach £20,000. There seems, however, a steady growth, for the September month as compared with twelve months ago shows an increase of £3347. INSTALLATION AND SERVICE LINE ACCOUNTS.

In reference to the installation and service line accounts, for members' information a table showed the transactions for the several years from 1924 to 1927. In round figures £56,000 has been invested in this department of the Board's operations, and £46,000 has come in, leaving £IO,OOO yet to be collected.

£ s d 1925 1802 1 G 1926 3233 4 0 1927 3947 1 3

02 ih "S 02 r-H Installations, fittings s. £ and service lines .. 493 4,092 Interest on installation accounts 52 354 Consumers' deposits .. 3 53 Electricity and meter 2,849 19,912 30 131 Rents and miscellaneous 30 221 Totals £3,457 £24,756

ANALYSIS OF CONNECTED LOAD. k.w. Lighting .. 943 Tl. No. h.p. Industrial motors .... 238 2696 Milking motors 371 543 Heating and iron points 2516 1802 284 1787 Water heaters 515 329 Connected. Applns. 2704 2727 Total connected k.w. .. 7273 The report was adopted.