WAIROA POWER.
TRANSMISSION LINE COMPLETE. Messrs Vickerman and J. G. Lancaster of Messrs Hay and Vickerman, engineers, Wellington, passed through Napier this morning en route from Wairoa to Wellington. Mr. Vickerman stated to a “Tribune” reporter that the main transmission line between Waikaremoana and Wairoa was completed yesterday afternoon. The Government is pushing on the main station at the lake and power should be available by the end of October by Y'hidh time the Wairoa sub-station and reticulation would be completed. He anticipated that the ceremony of turning on the power, the first from what will one day, lie one of the main sources of New Zealand supply, would take place early in November.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 214, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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114WAIROA POWER. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 214, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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