ARAPUNI DAM
COST OF REPAIR WORK. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, May 30. In the course of an address to the members of the Wellington section of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, Mr F. W. Furkert, Engincer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, stated that remedial work at Arapuni so far had been carried out at approximately £150,000 below the estimate. The estimate was announced during the long debate in Parliament upon the proposals at £500,000 so that the cost of the work designed to remedy the weakness which developed suddenly in June, 1930, has been, without the control gate, £350,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 5
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102ARAPUNI DAM Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 5
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