Gas Pipeline Survey Nears Completion
(New Zealand Press Association) HAMILTON, January 25. The survey of the Kapuni gas pipeline from Kapuni up through the King Country and the Waikato should be completed within less than a month, according to Mr R. E. Hermans, district civil engineer for the Hamilton Ministry of Works.
The department, he said, had a large team of surveyors in the field, but there was a vast amount of work to be done in planning the actual line before tenders for the work could be called. The Hamilton Ministry of Works has had the task of surveying a route 140 miles long, from Mokau to Taukau. The route will bring the line to within half a mile west of
the Tuikaramea settlement, west of Hamilton.
Hamilton will be the only town between New Plymouth and Auckland to draw gas from the line. Tenders have already been called for the manufacture and delivery of the pipe, and six overseas countries are competing for it—Canada, India, Japan, Britain, Australia and Italy.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31587, 26 January 1968, Page 26
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