EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1941, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

! SWIMMING CLUB I I I SPORTS AGAIN ABANDONED. I ' ("Times-Age” Special.) j The local Swimming Club has been ; dogged by bad luck as regards the ' weather so far this season. Sir.ee the 'club fir.-t inaugurated night meetings j at the beginning of the year only two • Thursday nights have been line. The I rain on Thursday night causeci the | sports to be again abandoned. i POWER BOARD i: 200,000 I.OAN EX H A USTED. The monthly meeting of the Tararua Electric Power Board was held yesterday. there being present. Messrs. P. Davies, J. B. Carruthers. J. G. Brechin. 1.. Johnson. W. Britland. A. W. Bissell, C. T. Richardson. T. Fouhy. S. K. Siddells. E. W. Cheetham Leave of absence was granted Mr. P. S. Page. Accounts amounting to £2325 5s lOd were passed for payment. The Secretary-Manager. Mr. W. T. Taylor, in his monthly report, stated: Summarising the financial statement for January, the following details are the most important: Cash received on Electricity Account £2626 18s Id: cash received on Trading Account. £1139 3s 8d: cash received on Rent Account. £5B 19s 9d: cash received from miscellaneous sources. £32 12s Id: total receipts. £3857 13s 7d. The trading sales for January amounted to £699 16s 2d. | This is a reduction of 19 per cent, on i the returns for December, and -17 peri cent drop on November's figures. A | general lull has fallen over the whole' district. Practically no inquiries are coming in and very few people want to talk business. Cash outstanding on the trading account has been reduced by £400; country electricity outstand-! ings have increased by 20 per cent; [ outstandings in the two boroughs have declined-—in the Eketahuna borough j by 50 per cent., and in the Pahiatua j borough by 9 per cent. The amount of I arrears in country districts (£1226 5s 1 9d) is not alarming as it is accounted for by several balances of guarantees which have recently been entered against consumers. The hydro-electric loan of £200,000 is exhaused. The means are not to hand to give you the full facts as to the actual position until stock is taken and adjustments made as between the power fund and hydroelectric loan. Meantime. I entreat the board to discourage any capital ex- ■ penditure 'for which capital is not earmarked) except service linos, until after March 31. 1941. Early after that date we shall be better able to survey the general position and arrive al certain conclusions without hurting any class of consumer.

The engineer. Mr. D. Fraser, reported as follows for .January: The connected load has been increased as set out below: Eketahuna borough. 14.200 k.v.w.: Eketahuna country, 12.455 k.vw.; Pahiatua borough. 31.670 k.v.w.; Pahiatua country, 27.514 k.v.w.; Akitio country. 5.363 k.v.w.; total. 91.102 k.v.w. New installations: Eketahuna 0. Pahiatua 1; extensions. Eketahuna 11. Pahiatua 24: re-inspections. Eketahuna 27, Pahiatua. 0. Eketahuna area: Three services lines have been overhauled and one new pump service run. Owing to the increased load at Hastwells it was necessary to erect an additional 10 k.v.a. transformer. There is a considerable amount of maintenance work to be carried out in the Hastwclls-Mau-riccville main line, but as the Mauriceville dairy factory and lime works are working almost continuously it will be necessary to cut the power off in the Mauriceville area, during the night hours to get some of the work completed. Pahiatua area: The Christmas I decorative lighting has been dismantled and removed. Alterations to pole positions at Nikau on a defective section of line have been carried out. Twelve services have been re-sagged □nd new conductors erected where required Five defective poles in the Main Street have been replaced and a start made in replacing the l.t. conductors in the north end of the borough. On January 19, lightning was responsible, for an outage in ' the ’Makuri. Coonour and part of the Pongaroa districts. Several h.t. fuses were blown i but no structural damage occurred. | Personal Items. i Mr J. Ammundsen. foreman of the! County Council, met with a painfull accident during the course of his work; on Wednesday. While assisting two; other men to unload some concrete, pipes from a lorry one fell on his foot,; severely bruising it. After receiv-’ mg medical attention Mr Ammundsen was conveyed to his home. Mrs V. Baird. Pleekville, and Mrs; K Falkner Kaiparoro, are spending I a holiday ..t the Foxton Beach, M'ss Kathleen Mabe, I .', of Hammi. is j visiting Marton Mushrooms Appear. Mushrooms arc being picked in i small quantities in the district After* the warm rain, thev should become; plentiful.