WORKING AGAIN
TOWER FROM COLERIDGE THREE MACHINES IN ACTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CPIRISTCHURCH, Tuesday Power from the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric station is now being supplied in restricted quantity as a result of an all-night drying and repair work by the station staff reinforced by seven men from Christchurch. The first machine was brought into action at 9 o’clock this morning, a few minutes over 24 hours from the time the station was put out of action by the bursting of a turbine casing. Mr R. G. Mac Gibbon, district electrical engineer, reported that one machine was put into action at 9 a.m. today and that by mid-day numbers 3 and 9 machines were working, giving an output of 10,500 k.w. By tomorrow it was hoped to have another 7500 k.w. machine in operation. He added, that by the end of the week he hoped to have the output back to normal, with the exception of the amount formerly supplied by the damaged 1500 k.w. turbine. In the meantime, and until further units became available, Mr MacGibbon asked that power conservation measures be continued.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21362, 5 March 1941, Page 9
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