POWER BOARD ENGINEER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 777, 25 September 1929, Page 7

POWER BOARD ENGINEER

FRANKLIN RESIGNATION SUCCESSOR APPOINTED From Our Own Correspondent PUKEKOHE, Today. At yesterday’s meeting of the Franklin Power Board the board's engineer, ■ Mr. T. R. Overton, asked to be per- ! mitted to resign his post as resident i engineer in order to take up another j His resignation was accepted, mem- j bers expressing regret at his depar- J lure, and a resolution was passed i thanking him for the work he had ! done in carrying out the board’s re- \ ticulation scheme.. Mr. L- Sharp, the assistant-engineer, was appointed re- ] sident engineer at a salary of £SOO a j year, and Mr. Overton consulting en- ! gineer for 12 months at £250. It was decided to circularise consum- i ers regarding the care necessary to obviate danger in the use of electricity for household purposes, this decision being the outcome of recent fatalities in various parts of the Dominion. The engineer reported that OtauaMaioro line, three and a-half miles , long, had been pegged. The canvass j for the Te Toro line had shown a payable load, and so did the canvass of Happy Valley from the end of the Paparata line to Mr. Mathieson's property. The erection of these lines would be put in hand. A re-canvass of Paparimu and Hunua was proceeding. The canvass of Mangawhiri-Mir-anda district did not reveal a payable load, the revenue per annum of the area amounting to only 10 per cent, on the estimated cost.