MANGAHAO WORKS.
During the New Year holidays a well-known Wellington citizen paid a yisit to the Government hydro-electric works at Mangahao, and, being provided with a letter from the Minister of Public Works, was courteously shown all round the installation. In the course of a chat with a Dominion reporter, he stated that after all the Cnticisra levelled at the Government over the length of time taken in the construction of the works, they were well ahead of their principal clients, Wellington city and Palmerston North, i'ho consequence was that very little of the available power had been requisitioned up to the present to supply tha needs of the few scattered towns along the Manawatu line and the street lighting in Petone, the Hutt and Eastbourne. So far as he could gather, no water from the*Mangahap river was being used to drive the big pelton wheels in the power house at Shannon, as there was sufficient natural drainage into the Arapeti dam to keep a couple of the wheels revolving.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1209, 6 January 1925, Page 5
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