BIG CONTRACT
The British. WestinghouEe Electric and Manufacturing Company, of Manchester, which' is represented in • New Zealand 1 by Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., electrical engineers, Wellington, lias, according to cabled ini'onmation, been entrusted with the carrying-out of the largest hydro-electric power scheme south of the Line. The plant is for the Hydro-Electric Power and Metallurgical Company, of Tasmania, and the installation will be started on immediately. In many respects the scheme is similar to that proposed by the New Zealand Government for Lake Coleridge, and the electric power will be transmitted at 88,000 volte over a long stretch of country. The contract includes the necessary buildings, waAer-wheels, electric generators of 4000 kilowatts each, 10 transformers of 1350 kilowatts each, and the transmission, lines to mining diaI tiricts and towns.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8
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130BIG CONTRACT Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 101, 29 April 1912, Page 8
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