ELECTRICAL SUPPLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 13

ELECTRICAL SUPPLY

CONFERENCE OF ENGINEERS CHAIRMAN’S ADDRESS Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. About 100 delegates attended the opening of the Electric Supply Authority Engineers' Association’s annual conference, Mr. H. F. Toogood presiding. After the reports and accounts had heen adopted, committees were appointed to deal with various remits. The chairman reviewed the position of electric supply in New Zealand, and dealt briefly with the work before the conference, which he anticipated would be finished within three days. In the course of his address Mr. Toogood said that the use of electricity was progressing rapidly, but the saturation point was still a long way off. He was convinced that the future development lay as much in the direction of the increased domestic use of power as it did in the industrial field. He commented strongly on the failure of the Public Works Department to consult the association on the establishment of an approval board to pass electrical eauipment. This had not yet eventuated, and the association would be justified in showing some impatience owing to the delay in dealing with the subject.