WAIKAREMOANA POWER PLANT
GOVERNMENT PLACES ORDER FOR THIRD UNIT (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON. December 22. An order for the third and largest of three similar units at the Waikaremoana electric power station has been placed by the Public Works Department with Metropolitan-Vickers, Ltd. It consists of a water turbine to be made by Boving and Company, an English firm, and a generator to be made by Metropolitan-Vickers. Ltd.
It will be 15 months before the set arrives in Npw Zealand. Two of the units are now working, and the third will serve as a stand-by when it is necessary to make working repairs.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 6
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