LAKE COLERIDGE POWER

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 136, 5 March 1941, Page 10

LAKE COLERIDGE POWER

Some Machines Operating Again (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 4. Power from the Lake Coleridge hydro-electric station is now being supplied in restricted quantity as the result of all-night drying and repair work by the station staff, reinforced by seven men from Christchurch. The first machine was brought into action at 9 o’clock this morning, a few minutes over 24 hours from the time the station was put out of action yesterday by the bursting of a' turbine casing. Mr. R. G. Mac Gibbon, tlie district .electrical engineer, reported that one machine was put into action at 9 a.m. today, and that by midday the Number 3 and Number 9 machines were working, giving an output- of 10,500 kilowatts. By tomorrow it was hoped to have another 7500 kilowatt machine in operation. He added that by the end of the week it was hoped to have the output back to normal with the exception of the amount formerly supplied by the damaged 1500 kilowatt turbine. In the meantime, till further units have become available, Mr. Mac Gibbon asks that the power conservation measures already taken should continue.