Pacific Islands Monthly
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Pacific Islands Monthly, 23 April 1937Vol. VII, No. 9

Hydro-Electric Power On New Guinea Goldfield

p. 43 · Read in the full issue

Page 4343

New Guinea Goldfield

IT is notified in the New Guinea Gazette of February 27 that New Guinea Gold fields Limited have applied for permis sion to produce and supply electric power.

At present, the requirements of N.G.G.

Ltd. and of the town of Wau are sup plied from the hydro-electric installation of Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd. It is indicated that N.G.G. Ltd. propose to supply power from (a) their power plant at Kunai Creek, near Wau, (b) a pro posed hydro-electric plant near the junc tion of the Kulolo and Bulolo Rivers.

Bulolo Gold Dredging Limited have two hydro-electric installations —one at the southern end of its leases, near Wau, and the other on the northern end, near Bulwa. The southern installation for some years past, has been supplying power to New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., in the Wau and Edie Creek districts.

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