RAPID PROGRESS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 6

RAPID PROGRESS.

WORK AT ARAPUNI. WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. Exceptionally rapid progress is reported to have been made on the reconstruction of the Arapuni hydroelectric works. Every item of the work is up to or ahead of the programme date, The concreting of the head-race and the portion below the falls is well ahead, and the Public Works Department officer, under whoise direction the job is being done, can see nothing that is likely to provide difficulties. All the anticipated difficulties have been disposed of successfully, and it is expected that the constructional alterations will be completed comfortably before the schedule date—June of next year. The work to date is reported to have been done well within the estimate of £500,000.

“Of course, we cannot tell until the new work has been thoroughly tested,” an officer of the department said. “The dam will be filled and the test made, and if alterations are found to be desirable some time will uecessarilv be lost before Arapuni can operate regularly again. But at the rate of progress wo are now making wo see no reason why the work should not bo completed before June, and well within the estimated price.”