POWER FROM WAIKATO

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 4

POWER FROM WAIKATO

I CROWS MEST SURVEYS. NEW STATION UNLIKELY. (from Our Correspondent.) i J

HAMILTON, Monday.When interviewed regarding the euggcetion that tha Public Work* Depart ment contemplate* establishing k hydroelectric station at a point on the bank of the Waikato River known as the Crow's Nest, a few tnltea upatrram frcai Cambridfe. the •cting-dUtrict electrical engineer, Mr. A. C. A. CaldwelL said it wae not possible to give definite information regarding J*ny probable ontcoae of the surveys. It was uhHkely thai any further hydro-electrical work* would be built in the near future.- :; . ,\ ; The survey* had been proceeding r %B and 6n for several yean, and when the increase in the demand for power warranted the extension of the Waikato hydrotltetrie adMmet, the moit stiltable ait* recommended in 'the aurver reports would be chosen. Mr. Caldwell commented on the favourable character of tin rock at Crow's Nest for concrete work.

J? **/» *» »»id, Arapuni had been •quipPfd with six untts. and them was provision for two more. The more immediate demands for power would be for adding this plant, it would be under- ■ ? *S^ e "y- <M*«-possible scheme on the Waikato River Would be put in nana. • . - *

survey at Mauneateutari was intended not only as an fiivostigation into possible power atetion,sites, but as a prospect for tuiUble quarry i eta l likely the^lM * tme,,t in «