HYDROELECTRICITY

Southland Times, Issue 19311, 1 August 1924, Page 8

HYDROELECTRICITY

TASMANIAN INDUSTRIES GALVAN ISED. 'Tasmania is fortunately placed as regards the source of power for hydro-electric generation,” said Lieutenant-Colonel R. Eccles Snowden, Agent-General for Tasmania in London, who left Wellington by the Remuera to take up his duties. 'The source is fairly central, and radiating lines of transmission can supply the whole country. The lakes provide the water supply, which is brought through a chain of smaller lakes, gradually descending, to the intake. This is a wooden pipe sft in inside diameter, narrowing over the course of several miles, and falling 1600 ft to a lOin nozzle, at the foot of a steep declivity, which gives an enormous power, generating 60,000 h.p. “The scheme is proving a complete success, and not the least remarkable feature is the stimulus that its advent has given to secondary industries. , There are several new industries attracted "by the cheap power obtainable, and others have grown phenominally since the scheme has been operating. A zinc company, with the second largest optput in the world, worsted, and chocolate industries, and several others, have sprung into prominence with the cheap power supplied by the Tasmanian Government. Wherever such cheap power can be supplied under climatic conditions which are essential to some industries these will be attracted.”