RANGITATA DIVERSION
CHANGE OF COURSE NECESSARY.
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WELLINGTON, July 19.
Slipping country on the Surrey Hills has neces's'itated changing the course of the Rangitata diversion race tor a mile and a half. The slip, dm the property of Mr. A. N. Grigg, M.P., is' 250,009 yards, moving at the rate of an inch a day.
The Minister of Public Works (Mr. Semple) yesterday authorised a plan whereby, from a safe distance from the slip, Water will drop through pipes to the down 'country, 100' yards below the level of the-abaiTdonle'd race, and, under a 13ft head, will be forced up to the hillside race, beyond the danger point. The pipes will be the largest in the southern hemisphere, with an inside diameter of 12 feet, the shell, in which probably one-inch steel reinforcements will be used,' having a thickness of TO inches. The Department proposes to make the pipes at Surrey Hills. Each 10ft section will weigh 23 tons. The change of plans, will not delay the completion of the diversion. The Minister announced that the Lake Tekapo storage development and hydro-electric lower scheme will be begun in three or four months’ time.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1939, Page 13
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