THERMAL POWER GENERATION

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25678, 15 December 1948, Page 4

THERMAL POWER GENERATION

NO DECISION ABOUT ROTORUA INSPECTION OF ITALIAN SCHEME -AUCKLAND, December 14 No decision had yet been made on the development of Rotorua as a centre df thermal electric generation as sufficient information had not vet &1n™ C °n said Mr E - R - McKiliop Commissioner of Works, who to-day after an extensive tour States 1 ” 1 Lain ’ Europe and the United Mr McKillop visited Lardarello, in Northern Italy, where electricity is natura] -thermal steam h? e Ji!? 1 t J? er £ bein £ extended, he said, and should soon be capable of generating 250.000 kilowatts Howaher‘,lcal composition of the thermal steam at Rotorua was very S”? r ® nt ,’ and much would have to be te n s e ta b rted re therl SOrt ° f Scheme cou,d A Government geologist. Mr M. Ongley, was at present at Lardarello and was making an extensive survey Hi« report coupled with local findings would determine Rotorua’s future 8 ’ When asked if New Zealand would obtain Italian equipment as war renaJa)‘°l?s lf scheme went ahead Mr McKillop said the question would' not rn 2 ined by 1,19 department, and declined to comment on it Discussing material sunnlies to New Zealand Mr McKillop said that the United States would probably be able to supply New Zealand with raw ma: tenals, particularly steel, which she could not get from Britain