ARAPUNI QUITE SAFE
ENGINEER’S ASSURANCE.
CURRENT SUPPLY IN JUNE
HAMILTON, This Lay. Mr Kabono, chief Public Works engineer at /Ara(puni, liul<orvio\v(ody estimated that the first supply ot power from the hydroelectric works would he available about June, the amount being 15,000 kilowatts. Similar further supplies would probably be available in. September and Dccemer or January. Mr Itaboiie gave an assurance that the dam is perfectly safe. The ground would bear a pressure of 70 t o i 100 tons per square foot and) the present greatest pressure was only 3 tons. Comparing the conditions with those at the St. Frances dam California,, tie said the collapse of that dam was due to the disintegrating of the hard pan on which the dam was constructed, resulting^ from water notion on ground dry. There was no such £ possibility at iArapnni.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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