WORK AT ARAPUNI
EXTENSIONS TO STATION FOUNDATIONS COMPLETED [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Friday One stage in the work of extending the Arapuni power station to provide for the installation of additional units has been completed by the removal of a portion of a cliff and the excavation of a large quantity of material to make room for the foundations and walls of the new building. A large quantity of concrete has been laid to form the foundations and the walls are in course of erection. The main plant to be installed in the powerhouse is not expected to arrive in New Zealand until next year, but the material required for extend* ing the transformer station will be delivered within the next three months. There are 120 men employed on the constructional work in hand at Arapuni, apart from the permanent stall'* Fair progress is being made by the two engineers, who came from Sweden to recondition the No. 1 unit in the power station. The unit was seriously damaged through a fault occurring in the mechanism in February last, and it has been out of action ever sinco*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 12
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189WORK AT ARAPUNI New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22226, 28 September 1935, Page 12
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