POWER FROM WATER

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10282, 17 May 1919, Page 8

POWER FROM WATER

THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME.

In connection with the proposal to supply Wellington and, parts of the district with hydro-electric power, an Order-in-Couneil has heeh gazetted authorising the Minister for Public Works, within the land district of Wellington, .“to erect, construct, provide, and use such works, appliances, and conveniences as may he necessary in connection with the utilisation of water-power from the Mangahao and Tokomaru rivers for the generation and storage of electrical energy, and with the transmission, use, supply, and sale of electrical energy when so generated ; also to use electrical energy so generated in the construction, working, or maintenance of any public work, or for the smelting, reduction, manufacture, or development of ores, metals, or other substances; also to raise or lower the level of the said

rivers, and impound or divert the waters thereof into the Mangaora creek; also to construct tunnels under private land, or aqueducts and flumes over the same, erect poles thereon, and carry wires over or along any such land without being hound to acquire the same, and with right-of-way to and along all such works and erections; and also to supply and sell electrical energy, ..and recover moneys dua for the same.”