A Huge Undertaking

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 41, 24 April 1930, Page 22

A Huge Undertaking

BIG and interesting undertaking, involving the establishment of hydro-electric works in the Sounds district, is: being considered by an American company, and a party of surveyors under Mr. H. P. Gibbs, of New York, left Invercargill last week for Doubtful Sound in connection with the project. The party; has already spent some time at Lake Manapouri, and will carry out survey and exploration work between Deep Cove and the lakes. The company, known as,the American Cyanide Company, obtained an option in January, 1926, from the New Zealand Hydro-Hlectric Company, for the purchase of the !..tter’s concessions, and the project contemplates the development of 250,000 h.p., using the waters of Lake Manapouri and Te Anau by means of a 64-mile tunnel terminating in pipe lines at Deep Cove, Doubtful Sound. Works would be erected here for obtaining electro-chemical products involving the extraction of nitrogen from the atmopphere. ; The undertaking, it will readily be seen, is one of a large dimension,,and if New Zealand labour is enlisted, we shall wish our American cousins all success.