Kōrero: Hydroelectricity

Switchboard room, Mangahao, 1925

Switchboard room, Mangahao, 1925

The Mangahao River’s wildly varying flow made the switchboard room’s operation particularly important. There was little or no storage capacity and frequent floods. Demand for electricity outstripped supply within two years of the station beginning operation. By this time work on extending water storage capacity had already begun.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Albert Percy Godber Collection (PA-Group-00048)
Reference: APG-1425-1/4; G
Photograph by Albert Percy Godber

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

John E. Martin, 'Hydroelectricity - Hydro, 19th and early 20th centuries', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23480/switchboard-room-mangahao-1925 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā John E. Martin, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010