DIVERTED TO DEFENCE
MEN, EQUIPMENT, AND MATERIAL PUBLIC WORKS IN CANTERBURY Urgent defence works are absorbing many men employed by the Public Works Department in Canterbury, and as a result progress on civil operations is becoming slower. Equipment and materials, too, are being diverted to defence requirements. "Any job which is not urgent defence work has to take second place, said Mr T. G. Beck, District Engineer, yesterday. “In every respect we "are using civil jobs as a reservojr from which to draw to meet military needs. The two main civil jobs of the department in Canterbury are the Rangitata diversion race and hydro-electric power development at Lake Tekapo. In each of these the number of employees has been substantially reduced. The Rangitata job is in the final stages, and the Surrey Hills siphon has been almost completed. Only 60 of the 12ft concrete pipes remain to be laid of a total of 723.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23539, 17 January 1942, Page 6
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