BOROUGH ELECTRIC LIGHT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 8

BOROUGH ELECTRIC LIGHT

j ENGINEER'S MONTHLY REPORT. • The monthly report of the borough j electrical engineer (Mr. H. Black), to be • presented at the next council meeting 1 is ias follows: . s 'jT,u riVate Li g ht ing.—Six residences, in Jn'tzroy are ready to be connected! up as soon as the p'oles arrive. The lin* m Holdsworttiy Road' has been completed, and ox homes luure been connected. Street lighting, Fitzroy: Wires have been ran and temporary fittings erected for 20 street Damps, leaving five lamps to be faxed as soon as the lines are extended. Forebay: About two-thirds of this, excavation has been taken .out. Pipe linelh,e excavation en the hill-side has been ' and the [piece between the etandpipes and the forebay is now being token .out. Tail rate: This, is being excavated as .quickly a® the wealther will allows but we have had some trouble in getting rid of the water met with and large boulders, which. Jiaive been: more numerous than in the previous work Foundations: gome further work has been done in putting in foundatilons for turbines and 1 .generators, one sfit beyw nearly completed. i Attached to ,Mr. Back's report is a statement of the cost of the various works ito flate:—ForeW, £BO 12s 2d; pipe lin,e, £SO 16s; tail'race, £7BB 10s 10(1; foundations for machine and building, £222 19s lOd; building extensions, £3l 141b Bdt; crane, £175 Is 8d; machinery charges on 'transformers and generator, £BO 3s Id; sundries, £67 2s M; legal charges and engineer's commission, £9<3 14s ltyl—total, .£I6OB 15s 7d.