POWER FOR GISBORNE
A LOCAL HYDRAULIC SCHEME,
Gisborne people are proposing to develop a local source of hydraulic power at Waikolut. Tlie.v have been given to understand that the Government will grant them the necessary facilities' under the legislation of last session, and that tjiey can have tho power available long before the big Waikaremoana scheme can be completed. Jlr. l'\ do Latour lias returned to Gisborne from Wellington, after consulting Mt. E. Parry, tho Chief Electrical Engineer of tho Tublie Works Department, and Mr. L. Birke, the ofiicor who is to succeed Mr. Parry; He stated that both tho engineers were Qf the opinion that Gisborne would bo very well advised to go in for a local scheme, aa it would later bo a great aid and standby to the Government scheme, when it was connected through tho district. Tho fact of a local scheme being in operation would ensure a larger load when the lino from Waikaremoana was linked up. It was mentioned by (hem that, the proposed Napier-Opotiki railway lino would quite i.'bviously have to be elecIrified to run mail trains with success, owing to tho heavy grades, and the Waikoliu station in tho centre of the Gis-bornc-Opoliki lino would be most valuable.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 157, 28 March 1919, Page 8
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206POWER FOR GISBORNE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 157, 28 March 1919, Page 8
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