ELECTRIC POWER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 10 March 1923, Page 7

ELECTRIC POWER

WAIKAREMOANA SCHEME

■ 9 A . ■■y-,j\X: ' 77; (BY TFLE6BAPI,— PEESS ASSOCIATION I Th. -'^ri- i WAIROA, March 9. Ihe official opening of the firnt stage ot the VVaikaremoana hydro-elebtric power scheme took place at ni id-day , to-day, w h e n the Hon. J. G. Coati performed the ceremony of turning on the current at the headworks; near the i lake. 28 miles from Wairoa. There was a large attendance

,J r- Coates dealt with the history of the Dominion's hydro-electric develoiH ment. The Government, he said^'wi* now Adeyeloping ; thiee key schemes*"-.**: the North Island—Mangahao AxapuhL and Waikaremoana. The teet7 mei£ turned would undoubtedly be the most important would be the, basis of a^ reserve for^ all the other Schemes in the^ North Island. 7He paid a tribute c Iter'^"®^ 8:5 baling of the Maoris ot thfe district with regard to '70 000 bush:law! skirting the shores; of the lake, whiqh were absolutely -neces-' cW for ram: conservation. The present scheme had .cost £47,000, a)ndr much reading required to be done first. The whole^work was splendidly carried out by public works men.