CONCRETE IN DEMAND
FOR PETONE SEAWALL
When the old electric lighting station in Mercer street went out of commission and tho useable machinery had been transferred to Evans Bay, the electricity department was faced with the job of getting rid of "the great concrete blocks, weighing forty, fifty, and sixty tons per block, which were the foundations of the turbines, • generators, and condensers. It looked like a long and fairly costly business, but the heavy southerly which a few months ago smashed up tho Petone sea wall turned out to be a favourable wind for the department, for the railway authorities undertook to break up the blocks and take them away if the city department was agreeable. That department was more than agreeable, and during the last two weeks the work of splitting the blocks has been going on, with some time to go still before the biggest block is cleared away. The distribution board for the old JOS-volt circuit (to those parts of the city not yet changed over) is still.located in Mercer street, but otherwise the building will be vacant in a few weeks. Until such time as the department is able to quit it altogether the building will probably be used as a storehouse.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 4 March 1929, Page 10
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CONCRETE IN DEMAND
Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 51, 4 March 1929, Page 10
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