WAIPORI POWER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 8

WAIPORI POWER.

PROGRESS OF WORKS. The Electric Power and Lighting Committee will make the following report to the next meeting of the City Council:— The time has now arrived when it is necessary to arrange for the supply of plsilt fc? thsi next 3000 kw. unit for tlie mam station at Waipori, delivery of which will be required before the end of April,' 1929. The tenders received in March last for a similar unit were very competitive, and the committee considers that the best course to follow on the present occasion’ i# to request the last contractors, viz., the National Electrical and Engineering Company, Ltd., and ■Messrs Boving and Co., Ltd., to furnish pricea for an exact duplicate of the plant they are now supplying for the main station, viz., the generators and the turbine, This course will also obviate the necessity of ordering another set of spares. The transformers required foj the installation should bo tendered for, as also the work of dismantling, and reeracting the pipe line (No. 2) in its permanent position - from the surge tank. The committee accordingly recommend that the necessary authority he given’ to proceed aa above outlined.

The committee will report as follows: Reports by the city engineer on the progress of the various works at Waipori during the past two weeks, viz., No. 3 pipe line, tunnel valve shaft, and Mahinerangi dam, ar e laid on the table. Three shifts mb dow _ being worked on tbe tunnel valve shaft, which is now down about 80 feet, and is being concrete lined. The removing of the remaining six feet between- the bottom of the shaft and the top of the ■ tunnel, and the installing of the 57-inch valve in the tunnel, will bo done during the Christmas holidays. As the'.works- progress and additional men ar.o required, it will be necessary to provide more hut accommodation. This will bo done by ordering huts of the standard knock-down typo as required from time to time at' the current “fates quoted by the makers, viz.; £39 per twomen hut.