POWER FROM HUNTLY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 11

POWER FROM HUNTLY

ENGINEER INSPECTS SITES STEAM-PLANT PROJECT Sp. , ol to THE SCX HUXTLY. Saturday. ijil« > in ; .ie vicinity of the Huntly coal mines likely to be suitable lor the erect:.*n of a steam plant for gen < rating electricity have been inspected by Mr. T. McLennan, district electrical engineer to the Public Works Departraent. A meeting of members of the Centre. . Hlectri---Pow**r Board, miners* unions, the Huntly Town I'oard and min** managers was held at the Town Hal 1 .. Huntly. this afterfioon. when further discussion took place in connection with the proposal that a steam-gener-ating plant should l*e erected In the Huntly district. Mr. T. Hinton said the Central Pow er Board had r» oi\ •<i notification of the conference in Wellington, which he hoped to attend. He considered the plant should be erected at Huntly, as the town had everything in its favour. Mr. J. R. Ellis, engineer to the Central Power Board, said he thought the only argument to be considered in . rrec: sd < Auckland was the factor of time. He thought there might be a possibility of getting the ! an of a machine to put into the old power station at HuntT. as a temporary measure. It was t the mine managers of the district and president* of the miners' unions be added to executive committee formed last Wednesday to further the project.