Twizel Village To Be Occupied Soon

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32208, 29 January 1970, Page 1

Twizel Village To Be Occupied Soon

(New Zealand Press Association) OAMARU, January 28. About 100 single men are expected to move in to the new hydro-electric village at Twizel, in the Mackenzie basin, next month.

The public relations officer with the -Ministry of Works (Mr D. Dann) said today that the cookshop was ready to be used, 100 single men’s huts

could be occupied, and a further 100 huts were on the site. The single men’s camp canteen had been finished and adjacent games rooms were receiving the finishing touches. Mr Dann said there were also more than 100 houses for married staff at Twizel. The modem cinema built for the mid-Waitaki hydro construction camp at Otematata might be shifted to Twizel.

The architects of this building, Allingham and Harrison, of Dunedin, were designing a social hall complex for Twizel which might incorporate the cinema and the two social halls shifted from Roxburgh to Otematata, Mr Dann said. About 2 million cubic yards of material will be removed from the Twizel section of the hydro canal. A start has been made in the Irishman’s Creek area, next to Highway 84, and work will continue back towards Tekapo. The project will open up a new concept in hydroelectric generation in New Zealand, with the courses of two of the three major rivers feeding the mid-Waitaki Valley stations being altered, and panals and tunnels, as well as dams, being built.