TO COST £250,000

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1930, Page 11

TO COST £250,000

HUGE WORK AT ARAPUNI CLOSING FOR MANY MONTHS EXTENSIVE NEW CONCRETE DECISIONS OF ENGINEERS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 11. It 1# understood that the Public Works engineers have decided to concrete the whole of the headrace at Arapuni from the main dam to the spillway, a distance of about one mile, and to concrete the cliff snd face bf the falls below the spillway, snd construct a. concrete floor at the base the falls.

This gigantic work will involve the closing of Arapuni for many months, and the cost may exceed £250,000. The generation of electricity at the . station, where the first unit was brought Into commission on June 3, 1929, was suspended this afternoon for an indefinite period. The transfer of the load io various local stations was completed during the afternoon. The. change-over was accompanied by some interruptions in the city, but as the evening advanced normal regularity ryas established. More Serious difficulties were experienced in jural supply areas. The largest of the protection works pnder consideration by the engineers will be a huge mass of concrete covering the falls in the overflow channel below the gplllway. Last year it was estimated this would cost £250,000. The lining of it least the lower part of the headrace hr also proposed.