POWER PLANT AT COAL CREEK
Site For Station Selected SATISFACTORY TESTS
(From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, August 22. Advice that the Works Department was now satisfied that the foundations of the Coal Creek hydro-electric power station were satisfactory in every way, and that the site had been finally selected, was received to-day by Mr W. A. Bodkin, National member of Parliament for Central Otago, from the Minister of Works (Mr R. Semple).
Mr Bodkin said the Minister had told him that as all of the reports were satisfactory, the proposal was ready to go forward for the approval of Cabinet. It was proposed to extend the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway through to the dam site, to go on immediately with the building of 200 married men’s quarters to provide accommodation for workers and their families, and to enable the work to proceed as expeditiously as possible.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25270, 23 August 1947, Page 8
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