POWER RETICULATION

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20742, 28 February 1939, Page 9

POWER RETICULATION

CENTRAL WAIKATO BOARD 'members inspect area Travelling for nine hours and covering a distance of approximately 150 miles, members of the Centra* Waikato Electric-Power Board yesterday inspected portion of the board’s area viewing recent reticulation work and districts to which power is likely to be required in the future. All" the board members made the trip, from which considerable knowledge was reaped. Covering: as it *joes approximately 1150 square miles, the board's area could not be inspected in one day, therefore, the inspection will be continued next Monday and one other day yet to be fixed. Yesterday the inspection followed a route from Hamilton to the Waikato Land Settlement Society's settlement at Karakariki, w’hich has been served with power for about 18 months and then through the Waitetuna Valley to. portion of the Moerangi block at th\3 Kaharoa Maori settlement, which has been reticulated less than a year. Through Te Mata the tour continued to ißuapuke to the West Coasts where the party had lunch. There the hoard members saw work “ recently completed just north of the Aotea Harbour. The power system in the Te Hutewai district was seen and then the trip was continued to Raglan. From that town the members went on past Camp Fergusson seeing work in the vicinity of Raglan Harbour before Liking the road to Huakiwi, Te Akau and back to Waingaro, districts not as yet served by power.