POWER FOR WESTPORT
GENERATION AT DENNISTON
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WESTPORT, This Day.
En route to Greymouth from Wellington today the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, and the Hon. P. C. Webb were to have taken part in functions which included the turning on of electric power from Denniston to Westport. Their plane was unable to come on from Nelson, however, so the local bodies, with the Mayor of Westport, Mr. J. M. Robertson, and the county chairman, Mr. J. Archer, in charge carried the programme through. Robert Colligan, an old employee of the Westport Coal Company who closed the switch at Denniston 25 years ago, when power was first supplied to the Westport Coal Company's Iron Bridge Mine, [closed the switch again today.
A small function was afterwards held. Speeches were made congratulating Westport on an installation which would give the borough power and light not merely for present needs but for a big extension, of industries if needed.
That Westport was using its main resource, coal, for generating the current was regarded as a particularly pleasing factor in the change over.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1940, Page 5
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