EFFICIENT WORKMEN
PRAISE FOR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT SHOULD HAVE BUILT ARAPUNI Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. Tho view that if the Arapuni hydroelectric scheme liad been undertaken in its entirety by the Public Works Department, instead of some of the work being let out on contract to a private concern, it would have been completed as soon as, if not sooner than, tho Waika remoan a scheme, is held by the Minister of Publiu Works, the Hon. E. A. Ransom. Addressing the annual conference of power board secretaries today, the Minister said there had been criticism of the Arapuni scheme, and it had been said that the department’s scheme could not ho carried out. When the undertaking had been taken over by the department, however, it had proved that it could be done. Tie was satisfied that, had the Public Works Department caiVied out the Arapuni scheme from the outset, it could have had it completed as soon as Waikaremoana. In fact, he was of opinion that Arapuni would have been the firsr to supply power
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 18
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175EFFICIENT WORKMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 671, 24 May 1929, Page 18
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