WAITAKI POWER STATION
Steady Flow of Current
LINKED UP WITH COLERIDGE SCHEME
A steady supply of power from the new Waitaki hydro-electric power station is being appreciated, in South Canterbury. The station was linked up witli the lake Coleridge scheme early in the morning of New Year’s Day. The Hon. J. Bitchener, Minister of Public Works, explained yesterday that the flow of power from the station is steadier than that received from Lake Coleridge. There still is a fair amount of cleaning-up work to be done at the Waitaki headworks, and approximately 150 men are employed. A number of them have been engaged on building bridges on thp Lindis Pass road over which the Duke of Gloucester will pass en route to Central Otago. Several narrow streams frequently had caused trouble through the pass, and as the girders used for sheath piling during the construction of the dam were suitable for bridge girders they had been utilised for the work. The Public Works Department had been very successful in disposing of material used in constructing the great dam, the Minister added. A large supply of girders had been taken to Hamilton for use in coffer dams required on a bridgebuilding job there
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 11
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202WAITAKI POWER STATION Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 88, 8 January 1935, Page 11
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