WATER POWER.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13871, 24 October 1910, Page 8

WATER POWER.

AX ENGINEER'S VIEWS. (SWECIAIi TO "TH» MIES!'")"' WELLINGTON, October'!!. Mr Robert T. Turnbull, ».« known Wellington electrical cngis* writing in the ''Post," condeaiia » Wellington water power scheme.,-* writes: —"it is'proposed to put dam wall in tho gorge above tbfl Aw tarawa Junction. Haif a nuie-tep this point ono can hear in Hood-* boulders rolling down the river b<a»'«* they come through tho Gorge. JJj monstrosity of the proposal lies ia v projected work of trapping J*"**, tritus by a dam. There are bußjiie of millions of tons of bouldcrt, <« and sand brought through tlw ww and deposited on the Hiiti flats be»<* On tho general question he »%' "Reasonable people will realise ins** depend upon our wool, mutton, U» and butter and cheese exports ttf -* prosperity, and the fatuous >- water power development ie, W; beating the air. It is flint* »»* assert that this country can Bsm*j pect to be an exporter of i" an 'i f .*J l L C.owls, owing to tarilfs and dJpf: from possible markets." Co?-®** Mr Turnbull says "Drifting «» rr.atters we have appw«na«|J *j* people per etjuare mile, and to*? y aggregated in four contrefi. & veC ?7l 32 people to the square little, aw* clcveloperl 500,000 vriter J' lut luckily they hove a foreijai_»»*■ for their wares. Great B"* 0, Twimlation of SCO souls per They have no water power but' they seem to run alon-r »v «£ with ete'am. If the Wellington <** ration can supply electncal f«w 2d mer unit to large «wrs would seem absurd for the crn Jg to step in and offer enerjZT a- * which "would pick my pocket » %C Vnyor and n ratepayer. *"*§• closely appertaining UU ana a [ tilV bracince, itrnnrance, has \tctn I" ,1 "/*, certain members of PorliarneM tf ►-, electors generally. CommercaWv should sit down and await the cods mny send mc. but pew J, the nro'wsal of expenditure upoa po-.veT- savours of a, wicked ws«9, 0 taxpayers' money."

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