HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1561, 17 June 1920, Page 5

HYDRO-ELECTRICITY.

WAIRARAPA WANTS ITS SHARE. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Members of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board interviewed the Minister for Public Works to-day and asked for an assurance that their district would get a share of the power from the Mangahao installation. Mr Coates replied that the allocations of power at present were provisional. If the full amount of power to be developed at Mangahao was available at present it could not be used. The allocations would exceed the immediate requirements, and that being so, the engineers had a margin on which to work. The figures he had quoted to an earlier deputation had not been complete, and he could supplement them now by quoting the following allocations based on population for Wellington and Manawatu and Wairarapa districts: —Wellington City, 12,000 horse power; Hutt Valley, 2100; Otaki, 900; Shannon, 2000; Bunnvthorpe, 2800; Dannevirke, 1100; Eketahuna, 900; Masterton, 2200. "The engineers," added Mr Coates, "had no doubt at all that when the Mangahao scheme was completed thev would be able to supply all the power that was needed immediately, and carry on until the Waikaremoana scheme came into operation. Anything that the Public Works Department could do to hasten hydroelectric developments, would bo done.