Survey For Power Link Going Ahead
Although it was announced in the White Paper on power that the Cook Strait cable project would be deferred for a year, work on the land transmission line necessary to connect the electric supply at Benmore with the Haywards substation in the Hutt Valley is going ahead.
The capital cost of the whole scheme last year was put at more than £l6 million, the submarine cable being almost £3.5 million. The rest of the sum was made up with the Benmore-Haywards land line . (£6 million), current conversion plant at Benmore and Haywards (£5.5 million) and another substation at Haywards (£1.2 miUion). Information that work on the transmission line route overland —360 miles—was continuing was given last evening by Mr M. A. Connelly, M.P. for Riccarton.
Mr Connelly said that from what he had been told a survey on the route the line would take in both islands was going ahead. Mr Connelly said he had received the information from the Minister of State Electricity (Mr Watt).
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28685, 8 September 1958, Page 10
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