HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 15

HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

THE WAITAKI WORKS AI Awakino, the scene of the new hydro-electric works, the upper bridge was completed mi Thursday (writes a correspondent of the Lyttelton Times). The light railway connecting with the Kuiov.' branch line is also finished, and connects with the bridge, across which rails are to be laid Tor the transport of heavy materials to be nscil in the construction of cofferdams. Two sets of rails of L't't. gauge will carry cement and rock spoil, the latter being obtained from the Can terbury side of the river. A Public Works locomotive for use on the light railway between Kurow and Awakino was brought into use immediately oil its arrival this week, and eleven of heavy sheath piling were delivered at the bridge head, together with steam hammers and other heavy material. Following the holidays, a beginning is to be made on the lower bridge, about l" 11 yards below the new bridge. Huge bins for mixing cement are in process of construction on Ihe Otago side, and the excavation of surplus soil in preparation Cor the dam is occupying several gang.". I'ei'iiianent housing of employees on what eventually will be the south bank ot'a lake is rapidly proceeding, and to date 10(1 huts, each to house |wo men, have been elected.