Matahina Hydro Station In Use
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 25. The Electricity Department today announced that the Matahina hydro-electric station is now in commercial service.
The first of the station’s two 36.000-kilowatt generators began supplying the national grid at 5 a m. today.
The second generator is expected to be in service before the end of next month.
Matahina-built on the Rangitaiki river, which flows into the Bay of Plenty—is the first North Island station to be built away from the Waikato river since the last of the Lake Waikaremoana stations was commissioned in 1948. Its earth dam is the second largest in the country after that at Benmore and the 1.7 suare-mile lake
i formed behind it is expected to become a popular attraction.
I The station will have a per- ! manent staff of 25, who will live in a nearby village. Most of the Electricity Department staff who have been working on the installation and testing electrical equipment will move on to do similar work at Otahuhu power station when their work at Matahina is completed.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31279, 27 January 1967, Page 5
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