Salient. Special Salient Issue. Careers Information Week. 1961
Electricity—A Trading Department
Electricity—A Trading Department
All of the three Trading Departments, with the general departments, rely largely on modern equipment. To take one as an example, the Wellington City Council is the Electrical Supply Authority for Wellington City, including practically all the suburbs, and for Makara County. Its up-to-date equipment includes 33,000 volt and 11,000 volt transmission, mainly by underground cables, a supervisory control system, converting plant for electric traction and a network of 11,000 volt cables serving 200 substations.
As may be expected, the Department requires and has on its staff engineers qualified to deal with every aspect of electricity supply, and thus there are opportunities for properly qualified men to obtain a really wide range of experience.
In all, there are ten departments: Town Clerk's, Treasury, City Solicitor's, the three Trading Departments, Libraries, Parks and Reserves, Traffic, and the City Engineers Department.