JUNGLE GENERATOR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 191, 26 July 1940, Page 7

JUNGLE GENERATOR

WEST AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT OPENING UP MORE TERRITORY t . The Gold Coast has been given all "electric interior" by British engineers. They have successfully "conquer- ' -eel" a portion of equatorial jungle territory in the Gold Coast Colony. West Africa, by installing what property agents refer to as "all modern conveniences," such as refrigerators. electric fans and a radio service relayed to each bungalow. Improved living conditions made possible by the use of electricity have led to efforts to open up the country individually, and one result has been the discovery of gold deposits in the shallows of the Ankobra, one of the chief rivers in this colony of 2500 whites in its 80,000 square miles. A vast scheme to recover the gold lias now been completed. Electrically driven dredges have been set up at the most promising points .and a generating station built in the jungle country more than 60 miles from the coast, after the dense bush had been cleared and levelled. all-British electrical equipincludes seven generators each driven by a 1000 horse-power tTiesel engine, transformers, dredge motors and pumps. The overhead lines which now span the jungle in all directions carry power not only to the dredges but to the workshops, camps and homes of the pioneers, where the engineers live in modern bungalows fitted with the wide range of up-to-date electrical equipment "which is the ambition of city housewives to possess.