SOUTH ISLAND’S POWER

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25179, 9 May 1947, Page 8

SOUTH ISLAND’S POWER

TRANSMISSION LINES TO NELSON AREA AIR SURVEY MADE OF ROUTE * The Press Special Service NELSON, May 8. Plans for the proposed transmission line to connect the northern end of the South Island electricity grid have now been almost completed except over short sections of rough, country on the West Coast. The line from Canterbury at present runs as far as Blackwater, 38 miles up from Greymouth. For the purpose of inspecting the Stoke-Blackwater route and, in particular, those portions on which final decisions have not yet been made, engineers of the State HydroElectric Department have made a survey flight in the Royal New Zealand Air Force Dominie aeroplane. The aeroplane carried the chief inspecting engineer of the department (Mr W. H. Gregory, of Wellington), the resident electrical engineer (Mr R. S. S. Meredith), and other officers of the Nelson branch of the department Particular attention was given by the engineers to rough, country between Reefton and Mai Mai valley, and near Inangahua Junction and Denniston on the proposed route of the transmission line. , Opportunity was taken to view a possible alternative route from the Cobb valley to Karamea However, in the present plans for connexion, this route has not been taken into consideration. The survey of the route for the second transmission line between Cobb station and Nelson is now being made.