MARLBOROUGH FLOOD
RE ASSURING REPORTS REPAIRING THE DAMAGE Press Association BLENHEIM, To-day. With the fall of the flood in the Wailiopai River, the Marlborough Electric Power Board’s engineers carried out a careful inspection of the damage caused, and have made a reassuring report. The erection of a new concrete wall about 10 feet high and 100 yards long will be necessary to prevent the river finding its way into its old bed, and big gangs of men are being put on the work day and night until it is completed. It is anticipated that if the weather remains fine, the wall will be completed in time to permit the official switchingon ceremony to be held according to programme early in May. The cost of the work will be fairly heavy,, though not nearly as great as was first feared, and it will fit in with the engineers’ plans for further development of the scheme as the demand for power increases, so that it will not be a loss to the board. The partlycompleted dam and headworks generally, stood up well to the terrific strain subjected during the flood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 5, 28 March 1927, Page 7
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