Announcement Soon On Power Station

Press, Issue 32345, 10 July 1970, Page 14

Announcement Soon On Power Station

(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 9. The name of the New Zealand engineering firm which will handle the S22m contract for settling in five boilers at the New -Plymouth power station is expected to be announced in about a week.

This is a result of a threeweek visit to New Zealand by representatives of International Combustion, Ltd. Derby, England—the firm which has been awarded the contract but will sub-contract to a New Zealand company for erection of the boilers. A spokesman from International Combustion’s agents in Wellington (Cory-Wright and Salmon, Ltd) said the decision should be known within 10 days.

>- Sources closely connected 1 with the power station pro- - ject say that the successful . New Zealand firm has i already been notified by a ? letter of intention, and that t confirmation will probably be just a formality. But the spokesman from Cory-Wright and Salmon said 5 1 his firm was not in a position Vto name the company. He - said five firms tendered fori I ! the contract. The New Zealand content of the contract is mainly structural steel work on surrounds of the boilers, and construction on some of the piping. The Ministry of Works resident engineer on the project (Mr J. H. Williams) said today that j work on this was scheduled to start in June, 1971. The j first boiler was expected to . start production early in 1973 e Excavation of a 600 ft by e ;soft area for the boilers is ; expected to begin in a week i .The engineers were waiting -J until testing for the new e chimney site was completed, „ Mr Williams said. i. So far. one bore has been a down 100 ft the required I depth—and has encountered [rock all the way. I