MANGAHAO NOTES.

Shannon News, 22 June 1923, Page 3

MANGAHAO NOTES.

ARAPETI DAM PROGRESS

(From our own Correspondent.) The continual rainfall of the last few weeks has made local conditions anything but Cheerful, and although the weather has not seriously interfered with the progress of the work, the roads are beginning to .show signs of the severe stress to which they are at present subjected. Traffic to and from the several camps, has been exceedingly heavy these last few months, and it is to the credit dTthe roadmen, that in spite of adverse. conditions, this (highway is never closed.

The'wall of the Arapeti dam has now been, concreted to' an average depth of 27 . feet../ Some idea of the huge task of building a dam of this size, may be gauged from the fact that in its construction some five thousand tons of cement will bei uised. The wall will rise one' hundred feet from the bed of the creek, will be seventy feet wide at the base, and nine feet wide at the top.

One of the workers on the dam, George Hansen, sustained rather severe injuries from a piece of flying rock, during blasting operations, last Tuesday morning. He was removed to the Palmerston Hospital. The nurse, recently appointed to Arapeti; is expected to commence her duties early next Week.