WAITAKI DAM
j v:-* * -r"~T — : 7 - ■ Hydro avorks again busy
OAMARU, May 22
Arrangements have been made .. for speeding up the work at the dam, and it is hoped that, liy this time next year, the remaining portion of'the dam gross' the Wliitakf Hirer wifi’he completed. , . . ’' : to this :effeet' n \va,s by IVlr It. H. Packwood, engiheer-in-charge of the hydroelectric works, during an, ,address to members of the Oamaru Savage Chib. Operations had already, been begun, said *Mv Packwood, for driving :V .the steel sheet piling to ..enclose the Otago half of the river in a coffer daiu, similar to that ".constructed, on the Can-, tefbury side, and if all went iwell and progress was not held, up by very heavy Hoods, the remaining portion of the concrete dam would be built up to its full height" whilst the river waters were diverted through the sluicewas already constructed in the portion of the dam on the Canterbury side'. . . It is proposed to speed up the work to something like, hut not quite up to, the time when the works were ■lt the maximum activity, during which time 1250 men were engaged on the works. He had already engaged ICO men, and he expected to engage another 200, which would bring , the total number of men on the works, to about 909. <
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1933, Page 3
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