EARTHING OF FENCES
VIEWS OF POWER BOARD ENGINEER. < DISAPPOINTING RESPONSE. “While we have been fortunately free from fatal accidents from this source in the Wairarapa district, there is a decided danger where a live line makes contact with an unearthed fence,” observed Mr H. B. Keenan, engineer to the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, at today's meeting of the board. “The position regarding the matter,” Mr Keenan added, “is almost unaltered since last year. Up to the present, we have delivered or posted over 1000 notices giving detailed instruction and drawings showing the methods of getting and keeping proper earth connections. We have personally interviewed many fence owners. The response to our requests is indeed disappointing, as approximately only 5 per cent of the fences have been earthed. “However, the board has done and is still doing its duty in taking every precaution necessary by erecting and maintaining its lines in a high standard and safe condition, by installing relays to automatically cut off the supply should a line break and fall to earth, by having a staff available to immediately rectify any trouble and by notifying fence owners how to earth fences.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1938, Page 8
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192EARTHING OF FENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1938, Page 8
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