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New Puha Sub-Station
Improved electrical supply to Matawai and the extension of supply to Motu will be possible when the new sub-station being erected at Puha is completed.
A general view of the sub-station taken from the Whatatutu main highway.
Brian Waimsley and Stan Grantham are "up the pole" in this picture straining up disc insulators.
A Power Board employee, Dick Smith, painting one of the big 50 KV transformers.
Laying underground cable. (Pictures by Robert Wells)
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