ARAPUNI PLANT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 197, 9 November 1927, Page 1

ARAPUNI PLANT

‘WHEN WILL IT OPERATE?” A UNIVERSAL QUESTION “PAN either of the speakers tell V us when the first unit will be operating at Arapuni?” was one of the questions propounded at a meeting of ratepayers held at Cheltenham last evening to hear the details of the Waitemata Power Board loan explained. There was a general laugh, which "as renewed when Mr. Trevithick, one of the board members, replied, “I think the Government must have given that gentleman something to come liere to-night and find that out.” Mr. Kennings, another member of •ho board, stated later that although too Government had ordered the first for Arapuni it had not apparently ordered the second, and the one unit tfould not carry the load offering. Ho also explained that the Government was to put in a 1,500 horsepower unit at the Grand Junction plant at Waihi, which it was taking over, to* being in addition to the extra "tetel plant at Penrose. WAIHI PLANT In connection with the acquisition ? y Government of the Waihi Grand Gold Company’s electric wwer generating plant, it is reported “tet finality was reached yesterday, T” 0 the Warden, Mr. F. W. Platts, ” J*. consented to the transfer to the the company of certain s P«cial sites. hv tK® ander sfood that the price paid st® Government for the plant, which Used to supplement the power ;; Horahora pending completion of -Arapuni scheme, was £IO,OOO and croj J ® te P a Trtll shortly be taken to in®at*rially the generating power the plant. POWER BOARD LOAN WAITEMATA PROPOSAL Anther support promised meeting °f ratepayers in the Chela tR I P° rl l° n of Devonport was held •o x c^elte hham Kiosk last evening I”? details of the proposed £ 80.000 pJJ? 10 be raised by the Waitemata ro »*r Board. ~ith^ rS ’ Kennings and G. Tri,me*fibers of the board, were akers * and Mr. F. J. H. Ellisdon, aiM ??° rt Borough Council, occusL 1 * 16 chair * as Devonport representa.n» hoard, the borough liavIW-?® into the Power Board area on 1926, both of the board or2 s ?* d Ihey had found the board *^king rß;anxsed as a oommercial underthat as long as the 12J dpp ere<i to its Policy of requiring pe nditurih C fJ lt ' peturn on capital exTh he a financial suc- °* furth* loan would permit sight r exte nsions, revenue being in It \i- ua Actually guaranteed. H °uld also stat od that the board its first ow a Profit of over £ 9,000 for co *nplete year,, which would c har*A. roi l depreciation and all x °uld t ) iat the money that the Dews °"tained from the sale of *s sinking P la nt would be treated tog of th rund toward the extinguishOq .j. ? n<l Pure ~m otion °f Messrs. Ellisdon schen! ’ U rnotion endorsing the the aqi» a nd pledging support at carried unanimously.