LAKE COLERIDGE SCHEME.
1 — (Special to derald.) DUNEDIN, this day. ■i The tender of the National Electrical Engineering Company, of Dunedin; accepted by Cabinet is for tAvelve 1500 kilo Avabb. General Electric Co.'s (U.5.A..) high tension transformers for the Lake Coleridge electrical scheme. ' Tlie 'price was m , the neighborhood of £10,000. Six of these transformers i are intended foi* raising the voltage at ■ Lake • Cbleridge poAver station from 6600, to 66,000. A r olts. At this pressure the power will be transmitted for some 60 miles to the viciniby of Christchurch. The voltage -Avill then be again reduced by means of another bank of six transformers froni 66,000 bock to 6600 volts. The Cabinet has still to^ deal with orders for several other sections qf the electrical scheme. * "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 5
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128LAKE COLERIDGE SCHEME. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 5
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