ELECTRIC POWER.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 May 1920, Page 4

ELECTRIC POWER.

necessity for the EXTENSIONS, ' rlle " or ! c of t)lc electricity'depart! On? ■{ a New Pi y Borough ronn".? ) I! llg April is dealt with in a lepoit by the engineer "During the month 41 applications for supply have been received, 38 new con. sumcis have been connected, and 10 ad« t x'' ex i ßtin » installations," ays the report. "The new consumers connected only represent ,a small per. centage of the applications ia hand and awaiting connection. These will be dealt with as eoon as possible. The connecting of these new consumer's is only being made possible by strictly, enforcing peak load restrictions on powgr and Heating consumers, pointed but by me some time ago as being one of tho metli--0 °wuig to the present position, that we would have to resort to. Exactly now far this will enable us to go ig dlf"cult to forecast, but the necessity of speeding up the new works must be very apparent. The power station plant, despite the continued heavy loading conditions, i 8 working remarkably well, and the same remark applies to the distribution station plant. The intake is, as usual, creating a good deal of trouble' and expense, almost continuous work being necessary to allow sufficient Water to pass."