WELLINGTON BLACKOUT
FAILURE OF ELECTRIC POWER. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IDLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In connection with the "black out" last night linesmen worked all day yesterday cleaning salt crust from the insulators on sixty odd miles of line and are continuing today. Some* thousands of workers in the Hutt Valley were thrown idle and nearly all industry was at a standstill this morning. Each of the large motor assembly plants arc almost entirely dependent on, electric supply as well as many other industries. Tn the railway workshops men were standing by cleaning machines and doing other odd tasks, but in the majority of factories employees lost time. A limited supply of power was made available to the railways from the Evans Bay station this morning.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390120.2.58
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
128WELLINGTON BLACKOUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in