MANGAHAO DAM

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2667, 4 December 1923, Page 2

MANGAHAO DAM

ENGINEER’S TRIUMPH. THE RIVER "BEATEN. The site of the Mangahao dam is at present a scene of industry, said Mr W. .V. Waters, engineer to the Maimwatu-Oroua Power Board yesterday to a “Standard’’, reporter. For months the engineers and staff have toiled to divert the course of the river and have put in temporary diversion darns, floods hampered the wiiik considerably in the past, but the recent spell of flue weather has enabled the engineers to triumph and the work is being prosecuted with all speed. Yesterday afternoon Mangahao presented a busy scene; all the stone crushers and concrete mixers, t emporary railways., * and cranes were working at tog 'speed, and this had been going"'oii; uLT the previous night—three"* shifts' being Abater in the ,fresh;gangs,of men arrived, and the jshifts; were changed, and the animated scene continued during the night, , ..' Only, about 200 yawls * pfi concrete remain t6id)e f in Hie foundations .ofiAke dam,,.swjien the engineers wifi be in a position to rest contented if another flood comes along. The" iiveiChJvs Jbjion beaten!