NEW POWER LINK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 12

NEW POWER LINK.

THIRTY-EIGHT MILE LINE. SCHEME IN WAIRARAPA. (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Friday. ' Work is tp hagiit almost immediately ' on the erection-, of a -new electricitv .transmission between Melting and 1 Mastertcprf 4fhe Une wty] coroptetrtho 1 loop betwfen the Melling sub-station, f which r sMgipl|ea< tho Hutt Valleyr' and i wJtltto tnfiplici the' "Waira--1 raps Power Board. The _ line will lie built on wooden »• polea In the flat country of the Wai--1 rarapa and on ateel towers in the rough 1 country over tha Rimutaka Range. I The object }* to provide an additional i the Wairarana Bonm* m the southern portion of its •rear, apt to->raake ayailablf. a third tranamiaaion line between the power ■tationa at Mangahao and Waikaremoana and the city of Wellington. • The line will provide an alternative route of aupply to the Wairarapa Board, which at preaent ia aeryed by a singlecircuit line running south from Woodville. The erection of the line, which will extend over 38 miles, ia expected to occupy about a year.