1925 - Chairman & Board Secretary elected

The first meeting of the Bay of Plenty Electric Power Board was held on 28 October 1925, and the business was to elect a chairman and a board secretary.

The inaugural; directors were: Charles Henry Fleming and George Septimus Moody for Ōpōtiki Borough Council. The Hon. James Burman Gow, Hubert Roughton Hogg, and Charles Gordon for Ōpōtiki County Council; and Gordon Hewitt (Waimana), William Alexander McCracken (Whakatāne) and Frederick James Burt (Matatā) for Whakatāne County Council. The remuneration of members of the board was set at £1:1s per day.

Hubert Hogg was elected chair, and George Hathaway was appointed the board’s secretary, on a part-time basis. A salary of £100 was voted for the secretary, and for the past two years of unpaid work as secretary of the provisional committee an additional £100 was made available, as and when funds would be available.