WAITARA.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Dec. 19. The steamer Huia arrived in the roadstead about 5 p.m. on Thursday, and berthed at the wharf at high tide. Discharging of the Waikato coal for Messrs. Borthwick and Sons was continued qll day Friday, and she got away on Saturday morning’s tide. The electrical engineer reported at the last Borough Council meeting that the plant was running well, and no doubt will continue to do so, now that the overloading has stopped. With reasonable care the plant, except one producer, is capable of at least another two years’ work, with a minimum of repairs. A comparison was given of fuel consumption before and after the installation of meters, it being remarked that the meters had amply justified themselves. The slight loss of revenue, it was said, is on the whole more than compensated for, and can easily be brought up again now that the plant can take 10 per cent, more consumers. Mr. T. R. Pitman, local manager of the Cmeent Pipe Company, left last Thursday for Australia for a month’s holiday with his people.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1921, Page 6
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183WAITARA. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1921, Page 6
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