TELEGRAPH POLES.
Wooden telegraph ipoles will soon be a, thing of the past in New Zealand (is&ys an exchange). In- the future ihey will give place to the more durable jpoles made, of feiiro; concrete. These .poles, being uniform in design, will.present a more, pleasing ance to the eye than the wooden poles, -wliich-«ure ; and decidedly disfiguring to the streets in which they,are placed. In - every sreispeot the has found that the concreted poles are superior to wood or iron poles. Poles to the number of 1265 are already completed for the metallic circuit 'between Auckland and Hamilton. Exhaustive tests have been carried out '.by the Department, and the strength of the poles is calculated to be sufficient to "carry any lines that are required. i?y a chemical process poles can now. be ' macl-o v.hicli arc very little hea7.«?r than io-ara. Tests recently male with an 18ft pole showed that they could carry a greater load th.ni <*-thcr wood or iron.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10454, 20 October 1911, Page 4
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161TELEGRAPH POLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10454, 20 October 1911, Page 4
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