A WONDERFUL FEAT

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 127, 25 November 1929, Page 7

A WONDERFUL FEAT

THE AEAPUNI SCHEME

TRIBUTE TO ENGINEERS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.") "» AUCKLAND, 23rd November.

Excellent progress is being made by, three shifts of workmen at Arapuni. power station. The works have '.been inspected by Sir "William Noble, director of the British General Electric Company. ■ Messrs. W. B. Caithness and T. Taylor, Australian, and New Zealand directors .of the company respectively, were also in the party. ..It,was stated that it was expected to have "tie third unit in operation before-Christ-mas,] which would considerably reduce the volume. of. water falling below" the spillway. The -engineers were;:not now' greatly concerned with the erosion, between spillway and waterfalL ['-.'■■■

Discussing his impressions of th« scheme, Sir William Noble said the' undertaking as completed to date was" a wonderful featof:engineering JskiUrJle felt sure it wbuUTb'e a-peimanent' and lasting monument to the..Bubiic "Works Department. ■■■'■- ■ -"' ' ."- L.

Mr. Caithness, in reniafking-'that the New Zealand; Government ' engineers had a; high reputatipi pyerseaij -said' the scheme as it stood..tb-day-'-vras one of which' any country might "be.'proud. No expert could fail to be impressed with the courageous manner in .which the engineers had overcome the initial difdculties never wholly removed:from a large undertaking of that nature. "After seeing Arapuni to-day," Mr. Caithness said, "I; am more than ever convinced that it is a magnificent work that is being splendidly. handled. ' I do not think there, is the slightest -.need to worry about the; future because" I am convinced that ".the position -is well in hand by men who%know.,theirjaT)s.>>