ELECTRIC POWER.
BIG WORKS OPENED IN INDIA. DELHI, March 11. The Viceroy of India, the Earl of Willingdon, has opened the huge Government hydro-electric works at Mandi, in the Punjab, supplying cheap power and light from the Uhl and Lombadag rivers to a network of cities and towns in the Punjab. The first stage has taken seven years *to construct, at a cost of £5,250,000. When cohipleted it will be one of the biggest in the world.
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Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 7
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