WORK AT ARAPUNI
PROGRESS REPORTED. AUCKLAND*, Monday. The works at Arapuni are in a most interesting stage. The rock formation on the sides of the Waikato River adjacent to the dam has been sprayed with liquid concrete. Instead of the step-like formation that existed previously at the falls, they arc divided, roughly, into three sections. From the heavily-reinforced concrete top the water will flow over an incline on to a concrete floor, from which it will dash over a concrete precipice on to a bed of concrete at the bottom. The sides of the falls are being concreted. From tne falls to the spillway the bottom and sides arc concreted.
From the spillway up the scene presented is most picturesque. . The bed of the water passage is concreted with
ail admixture of concrete and ste'illined sheets, while the sides look like a linoleum pattern with their hexagonal blocks. From the present appearances it looks as if the work is to lie carried out onlv to a certain point. — (P.A.).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 3
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169WORK AT ARAPUNI Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 January 1932, Page 3
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