HYDRO POWER.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17165, 23 March 1927, Page 6

HYDRO POWER.

REPOP.T ON TEKAPO. On Mondav the Minister of Public Works (Hon. K. S. Williams) received a deputation from the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Messrs R. B. Bell (prcsident), P. B. Foote (vicepresident), and W. G. Irwin. Mi'' T. D. Burnett, ,M.P., xvas also pres'ent. The deputation reminded the Minister of his promise to visit South Canterbury in connection with a second source of hydro-electrical power supply for Canterbury and North Otago, and asked him to name a date. The Minister replied that the re]iort on the probable sources had I been completed only on Saturday, ! and had been delivered that dav to ; Mr F. T. M. Kis::, ! (chief electrical engineer to the Public Works Department). It had taken a lpng time to prepare the report, wliich he had not yet been able to see. He recognised. however, that tbe whole qiiestion involved was one of moment to South Canterbury and 'to the contiguous districts both north and south, and he would talce steps to announce t,he conclusion reached in'the report at the carliest possiblc date. The Minjster added that he hoDed to he able to arrange to visit Timaru and the prospective various sources of power on his return from the south in about a Aveek cr ten days' time.