ARAPUNI POWER STATION

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22182, 27 August 1937, Page 12

ARAPUNI POWER STATION

NEW GENERATING UNIT IN OPERATION

[THE PRESS Special Service.)

AUCKLAND, August 26.

The work which has been in progress at the Arapuni hydro-electric works for more than two years Came to fftiition shortly before 5 pM\ oh Wednesday, when* after A .week ol preliminary tutting, the fifth • unit, known as No. 1 generator, was brought intd operation wlthbut the slightest trouble. The new turbine, a 30,000 horsepower unit with a capacity of 21.CC0 kilowatts, has already been in bpfer'atibn for two days, ahd the resident engineer at Arapuni, nh a telephone conversation to-night, stated that it had proved eminently satisfactory. No. 8 unit, whifcH is Of Similar design and power to that brought into operation this week, has been partly installed, and it IS expected that it should be brought into corhmissidn within eight or nine weeks. Power lrom the new unit will be pooled for the whole of the North Island. With the peak load for the winter well passed,, and the new unit practically ready fdr wdrk, the district engineer of the Public Works Department at Hamilton advised the Auckland Electric P6wef Board last iveek that the assistance from the King's Wharf Station would no longer be required, and it was shut down last Thursday night.