ARAPUNI-PENROSE ELECTRIC TOWER LINE
COST OF £220,000 (From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. The opinion that the total cost of the Arapuni-Penrose electric tower system will be approximately £220,000 was expressed by Mr. T. Maclennan, district electrical engineer, at a meeting of the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers at Hamilton last evening. The cost of each tower is £l3O erected and the total cost of the 517 towers erected in the 99.6 miles of line is £69,000. Insulators cost £II,OOO and the copper wive, £BI,OOO. Towers have been erected at a rate of 45 a month. When the Arapuni scheme is completed the three circuits connecting Arapuni and Penrose would be operated at their full voltage of 110,000, and the 50,000-volt systems would be supplied by means of 110,000 to 50.000-volt transformers at Arapuni. Hamilton, and Bombay, and 22,000 to 50,000-volt transformers at Penrose. Work on the towers was commenced in May of last year and was practically completed in 12 months. Progress was retarded by floods in the Waikato River, foundation work in the Mangatawhiri and Maramarua swamps being held up for some months as a result.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 12
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193ARAPUNI-PENROSE ELECTRIC TOWER LINE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 12
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