HOISTING OF MASTS
WIRELESS STATION WORK PROGRESS AT WELLINGTON [by telegraph —OWN coiiuespondent] WELLINGTON, Monday Tho contractors who have fabricated tho largo steel towers to carry the improved aerial system for the Government wireless station ZLYV on linakori Hill also have the job of hoisting them on their foundations on this exposed hill-top. Tho work has been reduced to a fino art, and each succeeding tower that goes up is hoisted in faster time than the ono which immediately preceded it. Tho third of tho new towers was placed in its upright position this morning and the actual lift took only four and a-half minutes, being done, moreover, against a wind of 25 miles an hour.
When tlio first of tho new towers was hoisted, tho lift. In; an electric wincli, took about 35 minutes, while five weeks later tho second tower went up in about eight minutes. Three more towers remain to bo lifted to complete tho work.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 11
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