The Coming of Hydro-Electricity at Mangahao
Worst Engineering Difficulties Surmounted Why the Farmer Will Benefit “New. Zealand has been reading long enough in the papers how^other countries use electricity on the farm.” “By 1924. Japan will have more.hydro electric power developed and controlled by the Government than any other country in the world - These two statements in the booklet of the* Mfanawatu-Oroua Hydro, Electric Power Board, placed in juxtaposition, are rather striking. The time is not far distant, however, when this country, with all its tremendous natural resources of water power, will be able to come witnin “coo-ee” of Japan’s electrical development. Mangahao, though not the first, is the greatest scheme of this nature which has yet been undertaken in New Zealand, and will probably still be the biggest) for years to come. . Touching as it does, every home, farm and business m the Manawatu, the following story of the work that is heralding the coming of the juice will be read with interest.
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Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 3
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164The Coming of Hydro-Electricity at Mangahao Shannon News, 14 August 1923, Page 3
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