POWER FOR AUCKLAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 670, 23 May 1929, Page 11

POWER FOR AUCKLAND

(From yesterday’s Bate Edition.)

WAIKAREMOANA MAY BE STANDBY PLANT STATEMENT BY MINISTER Press Association ELLINGTON, Wednesday. A comprehensive resume o£ the progress of hydro-electric development to date and of contemplated new schemes to complete reticulation iMwoi? t K CtS *l ot at P resent served was W„ e r ? Minister of Public works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom, in adfrv Vo ll ® the , Electric Supply Authority Engineers Conference. Since his appointment he had visited all the unalready in operation and most of those in the course of construction. ln l ster mentioned that it was expected that the first unit of 15,000 f: w - a * Arapuni would be available 1 - anf l would afford great relief to the Auckland district. The .5? .2? tbe was already done. was the most expensive part of the scheme, which made provision for eight units. While it had been suggested that only three should be brought into operation, it was now thought necessary to provide a fourth. This had been ordered. In regard to the Gowan River scheme for Marlborough and Nelson, the report was under consideration, and probably some announcement would be made in the near future as to the possibility of going on with the scheme. . The erection of additional transmission lines to connect Arapuni and \\ aikaremoana was under consideration, so that, in the event of a temporary failure in respect to either system, the other would be able to take over the load. It was further proposed to make an extension of the system from Wanganui to Taranaki. In regard to th,o Waitaki scheme, the department was considering the advisability of taking the current from Oamaru to Dunedin. He referred to the necessity of extending the Waipori plant, and said that negotiations were in hand for the Government to take it over with that end in view.