ARAPUNI HYDRO-ELECTRIC WORKS
FIRST TURBINE READY Dominion Special Service. Auckland, May 1. The engineers at Arapuni are busily engaged tuning up No. 3 turbine, the first one that will be put in operation to supply electricity for Auckland. Last evening the pilot governor was set in motion, and the last tests to be made before the starting of the turbine proved satisfactory. It is expected that the turbine itself will be set in motion either to-day or to-morrow. Excavation in the tail race, through which the watei* will escape after passing through the turbine, has been completed, and all pumping operations have ceased. As a result the bulk of the unskilled labour at Arapuni has been paid off.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 184, 2 May 1929, Page 10
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