WORK AT ARAPUNI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20851, 18 April 1931, Page 13

WORK AT ARAPUNI.

OPERATIONS. AT FALLS.

CONCRETING THE CHANNEL.

A CONTRACT TO BE LET. [from our own correspondent.] HAMILTON, Friday. There are now 450 men employed on the restoration work at Arapuni and they are being paid the standard rate of pay, 12s 6d a day. The spillway channel and the falls have been prepared for concreting and tenders aro being called for the manufacture of 'concreto paving slabs to bo laid along the bed of the spillway channel. It is considered this work can bo done more economically by contract than by day labour. Metal for the concrete is being supplied from a, quarry two miles from Arapuni on the Te Awamutu Road. A great deal of work has been done at the site of the old falls in removing rocky protruberances and in giving the snrfaco of the rock a streamline conformation preparatory to providing it with a veneer of concreto. An important feature of the work has been the drying of the two pools below the falls. Pumps have been at work for some time in removing the water. Unnecessary stones will be removed, and when the bottoms of the pools have been shaped as required, they will bo coated with concrete.

The whole of t the work at Arapuni has proceeded without a hitch since the resumption of activities there, and there has been no stoppage in any department. A certain amount of concreting has been done below the spillway weir, but the major portion of this work has not yet been undertaken. A start will bo made in a few weeks.