POWER TO PUMP MINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 154, 20 September 1927, Page 16

POWER TO PUMP MINE

REQUEST BY GOVERNMENT AUCKLAND BOARD MEETS When the Government asked the Auckland Power Board to take less power from Horahora so that 300 kilowatts would be available to pump out Muir’s Mine, the board decided to agree if the Government would make good the difference between the cost of the power from Horahora and the cost of generating it at King’s Wharf. This it was estimated would cost £5 or £ 6 a day. The board also stipulated that this arrangement could not last beyond next February. As the result of heavy loading on the feeder lines to Kingsland, Mr. R. H. Bartley, general manager, suggested to the board yesterday the laying of a 6,000-volt cable link between Beresford Street sub-station and the Lincoln Street sub-station, Grey Lynn. Observation had shown that the feeders to Kingsland had been loaded

up to their maximum safe carrying capacity. They had handled 140 amps whereas the load should not have exceeded 100 amps. Loading in this area is developing rapidly, stated Mr. Bartley’s report, and it was necessary to make provision for it in the high-tension supply. The cost of the proposed link would be about £3,500. The report was adopted.

The Auckland Lyceum Club notified the board that it had decided not to take a lease of a floor of the proposed new power board building in Queen Street.