ELECTRIC POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1943, Page 5

ELECTRIC POWER

MEETING OF WAIRARAPA BOARD REVENUE FOR FOUR MONTHS. DAMAGE TO INSULATORS. (“Times-Age" Special.) For the first four months of the financial year, April to July, stated Mi’ G. Brown, secretary-manager of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, at today’s meeting, the actual net revenue was £27,633, as compared with £27,341 in the corresponding period of last year. The installation department was fully employed. During July, one new consumer was connected to the system, making the total 6374, as compared with 6339 twelve months ago. The Price Tribunal and tjre Electricity Controller had approved the proposed water heating tariff agreed to at the last meeting of the board. The chief engineer, Mr H. B. Keenan, in a report on engineering activities in July, stated that it was difficult to conceive in these strenuous times that there were still some irresponsible persons trying to make it more difficult for the board to maintain essential industries and services by breaking 11,000 volts line insulators with stones and bullets. In the northern area the breakages last month were: Wardell’s to Pakaraka, all three insulators badly broken on one pole, apparently by bullets; Miki Miki line, three insulators similarly broken; Norfolk Road line, disc type insulator broken by a stone; transformer structure near Waingawa Bridge, two insulators chipped by stone throwing; outskirts of Masterton borough, large stones thrown on to a transformer platform. The police and other authorities were investigating the matter.