WATER SUPPLY AND POWER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 172, 20 July 1916, Page 6

WATER SUPPLY AND POWER.

NORTH ISLAND SCHEME. EFFECT OP DRY SEASONS. " Considerable progress hae been made towards determining the best methods of providing for a general supply of electricity throughout the North. Island," says Mr. Evan Parry, chief engineer in •hie report published in the Public Works Statement. "The enocession of dry seasons which has been experienced has caused serious shortage of water to several of the smaller water-power schemes waich have been pat in by various local authorities, and previous estimates of the power available at various sources in the North Island have had to be modified on thie account. With the knowledge of the flows during the last two dry summers, the various schemes possible for a general eupply to the North Island outlined in previous reports have been revised, an* at press* eurveys and inveetigations are being made to decide the relafave merite of two general systems of supply. One evstem involves the concentrate of the wtole generating P|*** n one fcrge station at Lake WaiWemoana or one of the larger Waikato ply the whole island from three smaller conveniently situated sources for the time being, and ultimately, when the capacty of these etations is exceeded to link up their various distributing systems "wrth one of the large central schemes outlined above. Thie thref stations wo«dd then become standby phftts and tteir possession would oveT «mc nsk of interruption on the W transmission lines, wWch is the chief objection to the adoption of the single generating station from the outset < organ.cd for work on the Waft River above Cambridge, and at JaS most expeditious manner, and with th the North lelaSd." S W poWer to