SEARCH FOR LEAK
!■ CONTINUING AT ARAPUNI.
(Per Press Association— Copyright.) . WELLINGTON, August 12. [ The search for the headrace at Arapuni is still continuing. . ■,.■-■■■ Boring *are .still in progress in the bed of -the headrace, above ' the: 1 cut off frail, and it has been discovered that compressed air passes be’tween" two of .the bore holes'thus suj£-. ; t gesting the possibility of a water path. \ Stepa are immediately to; be taken to block up the suspected pathway by means of coricrete grouting. _ : i. "The engineer-in-chief, of the Public Works Department, Mr Furkert, stated this afternoon .that.he had been ad- 3 vised that the men bn the job had been ; able to get very little grouting into the country, showing that.it wus-not at all open. Although compressed air had been forced in in small quantities,,, the had not succeeded in getting water through. r . ,| -' i 1 >• • '* ‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1932, Page 4
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144SEARCH FOR LEAK Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1932, Page 4
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