NEW LINE TO ROXBURGH
INSTALLATION READY TO CARRY POWER A 220 K.V. line between Roxburgh and Islington is ready tu bring power from the new Roxburgh hydro station to Canterbury. Mr E. E. James, the assistant district engineer of the State Hydro-electric Department in Christchurch, said yesterday that the line, on which work had taken years, was completed about two months ago. There are two 110 K.V. lines between Roxburgh and Dunedin, and a 110 K.V. line between Roxburgh and Gore linking the new station with tfie southern part of the South Island main grid. Later, when the 220 K.V line now under construction between Islington and Kikiwa is completed, work will start on a further line between Roxburgh and Islington. The line to Kikiwa, which will link the South Island grid with the Nelson area, has been surveyed, the access road is nearly completed, and construction of a few towers has started at the Christchurch end of the line.
The main consignment of steel for the towers is expected shortly. The line will be finished by the middle of 1959.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 12
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181NEW LINE TO ROXBURGH Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28019, 13 July 1956, Page 12
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