SMELTER SITE
Contracts This Week
(N.Z. Press Association)
INVERCARGILL, June 20.
The first of a series of contracts at the aluminium smelter site on the Tiwai Peninsula should be let within a few days. It will be for site preparation and will be followed over several weeks by other contracts for work valued at more than $5 million.
This was confirmed today by Mr G. E. Littlewood, senior public relations officer for Comalco Industries Pty, Ltd, the Australian group which has been joined in the smelter venture by two Japanese concerns.
Mr Littlewood said the smelter planners were keeping to the broad timetable outlined in March, providing for a start next month on site work, the first pouring of foundations in OctoberNovember, and a November start on buildings. The plant is due to be commissioned in July, 1971.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32028, 1 July 1969, Page 1
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