OVER THE RANGES
Power for West Coast
BIG SCHEME IN HAND
It is expected that it will not bo !ong before the Public Works Department is in a position to have work started on the construction of the highpower transmission line connecting the West Coast with the Lake ColeridgeWaitaki generating system. Three survey parties have been working for months on the necessary surveys. Apparently once the difficult section over the ranges in the Arthur's Pass area is completed, the survey itself will be virtually finished and plans and specification ready for drawing up. The scheme, which will eost approxirnately £'165,000, is one of the most ambitious of its kind undertaken in the Dominion. The line, entering the high country near Cass, must cross over mountains and wide rivers, and then down the precipitous countryside into the West Qoast, where the power it will carry will .work bigj gold dredges and at the same time augment the existing commercial and domestic supply there. In tiine, it is visualised, the line will supply power for the whole of a highly productive area from South Westland to the Buller
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 7
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