THE ARAPUNI POSITION
PRIME MINISTER'S ACTION.
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
’CHRISTCHURCH, June 24
A cablegram lias bee'll despatched to the New Zealand Trade Commissioner in Canada asking him to secure the services, of a noted hydro-electric engineer to report to the Government on Arapuni. This announcement was made to the public, to-night by the Prime Minister (Hon G. W. Forbes) iu addressing his constituents at Cheviot. “It is a very disquieting position,” said the Prime Minister. “1 don’t know why it is that all these things should come to a head just when I have taken the reins of office. We have to face the facts and the facts are that one of the most important electrical installations in the Dominion, which supplies the whole of the Auckland province with power, is in a very serious position.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1930, Page 5
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