To manage their new power station and reticulation system the borough council created the Taumarunui electricity department with a permanent staff of H. F. (Henry) McLeod, electrical engineer on a yearly salary of £400; W. Milne, power station engineer on a yearly salary of £325; R.S. Uren, lineman on yearly salary of £250 and Crawford McHenry as assistant lineman on wages of £4 per week. Henry McLeod was to serve as an electrical engineer until his retirement in July 1949.
