POWER FOR MINES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1048, 12 August 1930, Page 11

POWER FOR MINES

PLANT FROM WAIHI STATION AT HUNTLY From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Monday. The Public Works Department has decided to remove three Babcock and Wilcox boilers connected with the Grand Junction steam-driven electricity plant at Waihi and to erect them at Huntly. Mr. T. MacLeiman, district electrical engineer, said the department had a 3,000 k.w. generating plant at Waihi, but owing to limitations due to local conditions the plant could not be operated at its full capacity. It had been therefore decided to dismantle *>art of the plant and set it up in the Huntly Town Board’s old pow.jrstation. in this way the two plants could be run at full load, one at Waihi and one at Huntly, and would thus help to relieve the position caused ?3>* ♦he breakdown at Arapuni Mr. T. Hinton, chairman oi the Central Power Board, said the proposed Huntly plant would enable his board to supply power to several collieries which required it. The board had agreed to supply the Wilton colliery with 500 k.w. and poles were now being erected from Xgaruawahia to the mine in anticipation of the power being available. Application had been made to the board by the Glen Afton collieries for from 500 to COO k.w. for use in the new MacDonald mine, and negotiations were proceeding with a view to providing the power required. Arrangements had also been made by the board to supply power for use in the carbonisation plant at Rotowaro. It was expected that the Waihi pla?it would be installed at Huntly next month and that it would be ready for use at an early date.