NOTED U.S. ENGINEER ARRIVES TO ADVISE ON N.Z. HYDRO WORKS

Grey River Argus, 5 October 1949, Page 7

NOTED U.S. ENGINEER ARRIVES TO ADVISE ON N.Z. HYDRO WORKS

P.A. AUCKLAND, October 4. Mr J. L. Savage, of Denver, Colorado, a world-wide authority on the design of Hydro electric power schemes, who arrived at \yhenuapai by air to-day on to six weeks’ visit to the Dominion, and will inspect power projects throughout the country, is to advise the Government on problems connected with them. He said lie preferred not to comment without first having a good look around. So far his knowledge of New Zealand power schemes was based on a brief report which had been supplied to him and which was full of “aborigine names,” said Mr Savage. He hoped to make his report to the Government before he left the country.

Mr Savage said he had just returned from doing Work in Turkey and Israel, and when he left the Dominion, he would be going on to Australia, where he had been engaged on hydro electric work several times previously. “We have a number of questions on which we would be very pleased to have the advice of Mr Savage,” said Mr F. Langbein, engineer-in-chief of the Ministry of Works, who, with Mr 11. L. Bell, district engineer at Auckland, met Mr Savage at Whenuapai aerodrome. "We want him to have a look particularly at Roxborough and some of the Waikato schemes, which are particularly intricate.”

Mr Savage will leave for Wellington tomorrow.

7f the weather is line he will probably travel in a Ministry of Works aircraft, which will fly over the hydro electric schemes on the Waikato river.