WAIKAREMOANA WORKS
REPORTS OF SERIOUS TROUBLE DENIAL BY MINISTER (PA) WELLINGTON, June 26. Reports that serious trouble had occurred at the upper development scheme at "Waikarcmoana and that ail the available supplies of cement were being hurriedly diverted there were denied by the Minister of Works, Mr R Semple, to-night. “We need thousands of tons of cement for this job, just as for any other hydro-electric undertaking,” said the Minister. “The whole basis of hydro-electric jobs. is cement.” Mr Semple said that so far as he knew there was no foundation for the rumours that trouble had occurred. Certainly no such reports had reached him, nor had any been received by the engineer-in-chief of the Works Department. “ We have had minor difficulties with water and will continue to have them, because we are making two drives under the huge lake in very porous country,” said the Minister. “It is one of the most ticklish jobs our engineers have tackled, and I am satisfied we have it under control.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25881, 27 June 1945, Page 4
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