THE ARAPUNI SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18158, 2 August 1922, Page 6

THE ARAPUNI SCHEME.

SOME SIGNS OF ACTIVITY. INSPECTION BY EXPERT. [BY XELZOSAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PUEEATUA, Tuesday. The chief elecl«rician and general manager of hydro-elocta*icity i'or Tasmania, Mr. J. H. Butters, viflitod Araptmi last Sunday with a party of Public Works engineers. He expressed the opinion that this site on the Waikabo River was an ideal one for a vast hydro-electric scheme and was charmod with the natural beauties of the gorge." He left for Horahora, pn route for Wellington the same night. Ho has been aake<l to make a report on Arapuni to the Public Works Department. It is reported that the site for tiie permanent Pnblic Works village at Arapuni, including a school reserve,, has been chosen on an axea of 24 acres near the proposed position of the new bridge across the Waikato River, which will give access to the power house sine.

The survey of the railway from Put»ruru to Arapuni has Ivaen nearly completed, the survey party under Mr. Wilson being camped near the Ixaoks of the Waikato at Arapuni. Mr. E. Bold, the Government land purchaser, from Wellington, in company with Mr. Hall Jones and Mr, J. W. D. Hamilton, made a visit to Arapuni on Friday lm>t. Mr. Bold wished to become acquainted with the environments at Aranani in view of the Pub Jits Works Department purchasing sites lior workmen's camps, station yards, and land for a new road route