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Page 36 Advertisements Column 4

Press

22 June 1983

Next move on the dam

Press

21 August 1982

RAISING THE WAIPORI DAM PROVIDES ADDITIONAL ELECTRICITY FOR CITY.—The completion of the scheme involving the raising of the crest level of the Dunedin City Corporations dam at Waipori by 43ft was marked by an official ceremony to-day. This view of the dam, winch harnesses Lake Mahinerangi, shows the spillway, and the gap is where the control gate is to be placed in position, The No. 1 power station is dwarfed by the dam, which now has a height of 113ft.

Evening Star

13 November 1946

OUTPUT OF 3000 K.W.

Nelson Evening Mail

19 September 1942

Hauraki Plains Gazette

20 July 1936

HUGE SWITCHES FOR BOULDER. DAM POWER. — One of a battery of four giant switches installed at a Los Angeles receiving station to protect the Boulder Dam .'transmission from – overloading. These switches can-cut <off the electricity in one-irventieihiof'(wsecond.

Auckland Star

3 July 1936

THE WAITAKI DAM

Press

30 August 1934

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Evening Star

28 February 1947

IMMEDIATE START ON AVIEMORE

Press

25 October 1962

After the breaching of the Moehne dam; the flooded Ruhr Valley at Froendenberg – Boesperde. 13 miles below the Moehne Dam. road bridge destroyed and road submerged; big electricity works cut off; railway bridge destroyed, and railway coaches wrecked and sidings submerged.

Ashburton Guardian

24 January 1944

ATIAMURI POWER PROJECT.—There is more to the Atiamuri earth dam, in the Waikato river valley, than meets the eye as this Ministry of Works diagram of a typical section through the dam and cut-off wall shows. The earth part of the dam is 800ft long and follows on from the concrete part of 500ft which spans the present river bed. Electricity is expected from the power station early next year.

Press

2 July 1958

ITALIANS BUILD DAM IN ABYSSINIA AS WAR REPARATIONS—The Koka dam. which is being built near Addis Ababa by Italian engineers as part of Italy’s war reparations to Abyssinia. The estimated cost is £4,500,000. The dam will have a two-fold purpose—irrigation and the supply of hydro-electric power. It will irrigate the cotton-growing Awash Valley, and it should double Abyssinia’s electricity supplies. The dam’s first unit is expected to be in operation in 1960.

Press

13 November 1958

AN EXPERIMENT WITH ELECTRICITY.

Grey River Argus

22 June 1882

Reduction in Clutha power?

Press

24 September 1981

Clyde dam 'a waste’

Press

14 December 1977

BIGGEST ARTIFICIAL LAKE

Poverty Bay Herald

19 November 1935

Press

15 June 1982

Mozambique’s giant dam is back in action

Press

17 November 1981

PROGRESS OF BIG DAM AT AVIEMORE HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER WORKS.—An aerial view of the part-earth, part-concrete dam under construction at Aviemore on the Waitaki river. Aviemore is the fourth of a possible 19 power stations to be built in the Waitaki basin. It will generate electricity next winter.

Press

30 May 1967

When completed the Itaipu Dam, being built on the Parana River between Brazil and Paraguay, will be the largest in the world. Costing $8500 million, the dam will generate 12.6 million kilowatts of electricity through 18 turbines. The power will be shared equally between the two countries.

Press

23 June 1979

MANGLA DAM COST

Press

16 November 1963

THE CREST of the Benmore earth dam, looking from the Canterbury to the Otago side of the Waitaki river. The 15,000-acre lake, which will be formed on the upstream side of the dam (on the right of the photograph), will come to within 10ft of the dam crest. The giant penstocks, leading the water into the six turbines in the power-house, can be seen on the Otago end of the dam. In the left background is the valvehouse which will convert the electricity from alternating current to direct current to feed the power to the North Island by the Cook Strait cables.

Press

4 May 1964

MANAPOURI DAM COSTS

Press

3 September 1971

Dam works extended in 1981 energy plan

Press

12 September 1981

Work on Luggate dam may be delayed — P.M.

Press

4 November 1986

Nelson Evening Mail

26 June 1945

Press

18 May 1982

Clyde dam date again put back

Press

7 August 1984

PRESS-BUTTON CITY

Otago Daily Times

13 August 1937

Crack in dam at Waipori

Press

1 December 1983

MANAPOURI INQUIRY Commission Given 6 Months To Report

Press

24 April 1970

rnmnli*tinn of i?rrat eni?ineerinu feat: The Grand Coulee dam in the State of Washington, which has been built to supply the north-west of America with electricity for civil and defence purposes The dam, which is 550 feet high and 4300 feet long, ia claimed to be the largest atructur® yfflt erected by man.

New Zealand Herald

3 May 1941

The Minister of Electricity, Mr McGuigan (second from right), at the site of the Pukaki dam during a tour of the Upper Waitaki hydro-electricity development. With him are (from left) Mr S. M. J. Smith, the project engineer, Mr P. W. Blakeley, general manager of the New Zealand Electricity Department, and Mr J. Colenso, Ministry of Works overseer.

Press

8 May 1973

Electricity price

Press

7 April 1987

A double-lane bridge being built over the channel through which the Clutha River will be diverted as part of the Clyde dam project in Central Otago. The Clutha River is being diverted to allow the dam to be built across the former river-bed. The Clyde power station is expected to start producing electricity in 1987.

Press

27 October 1981

Page 1 Advertisements Column 5

Thames Star

29 August 1936

POWER FROM WAIPORI

Otago Daily Times

7 November 1942

ELECTRIC CURRENT.

Lyttelton Times

17 February 1920

A NIGHT VIEW OF THE AVIEMORE DAM AND POWER STATION, nearing completion in the Waitaki Valley. Lake Aviemore will be formed when the dam is closed in May, and the first electricity from the new station will be generated shortly after. The lake will cover 7000 acres and extend 11 miles up the valley to Benmore.

Press

9 March 1968

AVIEMORE DAM NEARS COMPLETION.—The dam is now at its full height along most of its length, ready to retain the new lake that will be formed in the New Year. A million tons of concrete has been placed in the structures. The new station on the Waitaki River will generate electricity for consumers throughout New Zealand next winter.

Press

23 December 1967

Luggate rights approved but planning criticised

Press

3 July 1985

Aid project will drive 45,000 from homes

Press

30 March 1983

SUPPLY OF POWER

Otago Daily Times

26 December 1947

Biggest hydro-dam

Press

30 August 1984

RELUCTANT COMPROMISE FRELIMO WILL NOW SUPPLY POWER FOR SOUTH AFRICA

Press

24 October 1974

TESTS AT ARAPUNI

Waipa Post

22 December 1927

Waikato Times

21 December 1927

Page 53 Advertisements Column 4

Press

25 June 1983

THE PRESS MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1987. Luggate dam on hold

Press

22 June 1987

DESERT TRANSFORMED.

Lake Wakatip Mail

4 June 1935

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