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‘¥ -_"- , 4 Hydro-Electric Schemes YDRO-ELECTRIC schemes are be‘ing developed in all parts of the world. The Pangani River Falls in Tanganyika will now provide an area of 60 miles with electricity and greatly help the sisal growing industry. Sisal grass provides the fibre from which cordage is made. On Christmas Eve, the loch waters rushed along the tunnel driven through Ben Nevis, a work which, when complete, will be the greatest hydro-elec-trie enterprise in the United Kingdom. A pathetic ¢ircumstance was that at the same time the engineer who had planned. the scheme, and given his whole heart to the work, in more ways than one, himself passed over the dark waters of life and death, He wayYharles Godfrey Jameson, a nephew of. the Dr. Jameson who was the close friend of Cecil Rhodes, both of them great Empire-builders. The Ben Nevis works will remain a fitting memorial to the engineer, who spared not himself, but gave his life to his work.
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 40, 17 April 1930, Page 24
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