WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS TO SPEND £200-000 FOR ELECTRIC POWER—THE MAKURI GORGE, NEAR PAHIATUA.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 October 1910, Page 17

WHERE THE GOVERNMENT IS TO SPEND £200-000 FOR ELECTRIC POWER—THE MAKURI GORGE, NEAR PAHIATUA.

The Government's big hydro-electrlca. scheme Includes the establishment of a plant tor the generation of. floist h.p. per annum nt M.ikurl. at an estimated cost of From this point light and power would be supplied to Palmerston North, Masterton. Woodville, Pnhlatua, Felldlng. Levin. and Intermediate towns. The Premier estimates that power would be retailed at £lO per h.p. per annum, as against £l5 to £3O at present with coal. Electric light would be supplied at 2d per unit, and power worked out at Id intermittent and id for continuous working per unit, while this would allow the State a profit of £3 to £4 per h.p. The Makuri works will be only nineteen miles from Palmerston In an air line, and there Is no guaging the possibilities which the construction of this power station would open for the district.