CANTERBURY POWER HOUSE
RECENT RUMOUR DENIED.
STABILITY NOT AFFECTED.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —FRESS ASSOCIATION.] CURISTCHURCH, Wednesday.
There is no basis for the alarming rumour which was in circulation in the city yesterday regarding the stability of the hydro-electric generating station at Lake Coleridge, on which most of Canterbury depends for its supply of electric energy. This was ascertained by a reporter who visited the station during the day and made a personal investigation. The story was that the main walls of the station had developed large cracks between tlie original portion of the building and additions that were erected five years ago. The whole station rests on a raft of concrete floating on a bed of shingle. Tho original portion settled slightly after it was built and then reached a firm base. When the second part was built it also had to settle and in tho settling process cracks appeared. Tlieso have caused tho engineers no concern, as similar cracks have been observed in reinforced concrete buildings in other parts of the country under similar circumstances.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20618, 17 July 1930, Page 10
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