ARAPUNI POWER PLANT.
FOUR TENDERS RECEIVED. By Telegraph fcrsss -Association—Copyright “ Times " Service. (.Received July 15, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Th© City Editor the “The Times” s&ys that four different groups have tendered for the Arapuni contract. Ho understands that a Swedish electrical firm is supplying a portion of the plant required by Armstrong’s for the scheme. He suggests that the New Zealand Government should raise a loan in London later for the purposo of paying the contractors. Sir W. C. Armstrong, Whitworth and Company, the well known English firm, who are building the Waihi-Tau-rariga section of the East Coast railway, have been successful in securing the contract for the dam, spillway, hood works, power-house and plant installation of the Arapuni hydro -electric scheme, to cost £1,175,652.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17342, 15 July 1924, Page 6
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127ARAPUNI POWER PLANT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17342, 15 July 1924, Page 6
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