DEVELOPING ARAPUNI

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17227, 5 April 1930, Page 6

DEVELOPING ARAPUNI

POWER HOUSE EXTENSION

ROOM FOR POUR MORE UNITS

Satisfactory progress is being maintained at. tin* Arapuni power station, which was visited recently by members of the Thames 1 Valley Power Hoard. Nbs. 2 and 3 units are operating efficiently, the maximum power generated last week- amounting to 33,000 kilowatts, which is equivalent to 44,000 horse-power. The foundations which will carry the fourth unit have been completed, but the machinery is not expected to arrive in tho Dominion until tho close of the year. Preparations are also in train for the concreting of tho falls, which showed no sign of erosion in recent months. Tho engineers are now directing their activities to another new and intensely interesting enterprise. This is the extention of the power house, to double its present length, to accomodate four more units. When this work is completed the station will generate 120,000 kilowatts. The first work in the new enterprise will bo tho blasting of the high wall.of rock on the power-house side of the gorge, to make room for the new building. The excavation work has been commenced.