HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER.
' In reply to a deputation at Napier on Tuesday, the Hon W. Fraser, Minister of Public Works, stated that the Government did not propose at present utilising the waters of Lake Waikaremoana for the purposes of electric power. Five electric schemes 'had been proposed, to cost a A'ast amount,of money, Parliament had rather sshiod at the proposals, and personally he had been against them, a« he knew the difference wliich often existed between estimated cost and actual cost. The Lake Coleridge scheme was being undertaken as a trial, to see if the actual cost came within the Cvstimates. So far it hud done so. If it could be shown that the work could be carried out in its 'entirety for the estimated cost, there • was every probability of the other schemes being started.. From these remarks it is quite evident that there is no * chance for the North Island schemes in the immediate future.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 19 December 1912, Page 4
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156HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 19 December 1912, Page 4
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