GOOD PROGRESS
WAITAKI HYDRO CONSTRUCTION.;
TRIBUTE PAID TO ENGINEER.
iPer Press Association Copi/rty/tt 'i .
QAMARU, December 22.
During ! the past few months, with very favourable conditions prevailing, exceptionally good, progress'has been made with constructional work on the wall of the Waitaki dam, with th e result, that the ryork ha& reached a str ge beyond the risk) of damage by flood. The long land portion of the wall on the Otago side has practically been completed The construction of the cofferdam, the dewatering of the excavation to the foundations, and the building oj. tlm wall to ■ above flood height have. uoav successfully been accomplished. , ; At a meeting; of fhe Oam aru Chamber of Commerce, the members paid a very high, tribute to the engineering ability and skill. of. t-ho engineer-in-charge (Mr Ri. H. PackAvood), and decided to Avrit-c haft n letter congratulating him on .mastering the mighty Waitaki River, and on , his ‘achievement'in personally supervising and successfully accomplishing a work of such, i magnitude in, this r district-, •>-A •, •
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1933, Page 5
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