MANGAHAO REVISITED.

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 587, 13 June 1925, Page 8

MANGAHAO REVISITED.

third dam well ender WAY. To the average person i( appears lhn.t activity at Mangahao ceased when the power became available from the hydro-electric scheme, and the general idea prevails that the Manga Into Valley at the present time must present a scene of sylvan peace and quietude, where only the presence of the two and a half mile strip of wafer which constitutes the dam. indicates tin* activity and records the achievement of Die three years of ceaseless labour which bostqwed the advantage ol electricity on the countryside. That this was an erroneous impression, however, was forcibly borne in upon a Levin Chronicle respresontative who visited the Mangahao recently. and 'Who, although he had boon apprised of . .the iact that work was in progress there in preparation for the No. 3 dam, which is to act as a storage area in anticipation of unusual drought, was nevertheless surprised to find nearly 300 men employed in road-making and other activities in the valley.