Hydro Project
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[?]Sw Coal Will Not
[?]E Needed
N. Caledonia’s New Hydro Project
IHE French Metropolitan Gov , ernment has called for tenders for the construction of a dam i the Yate river (Southern NO, >se to the existing dam.
This will greatly increase the out it of the Yate hydro-electric ition and will enable the nickel lelters at Noumea to smelt ore tirely by electrical means.
At the present time Yate provides ly a small part of the smelters’ eds with the result that imported al and coke has to be used, rhe construction of this dam will ab’e New Caledonian nickel to ind on it’s own without subsidy the world market. The dam is cost about 8 milliards of francs d big construction firms in France i sending out engineers to survey iditions before making bids. (Ed. Note: If the new hydro leme does supply all the nickel .elters’ power requirements, then istralia will lose her trade in coal d coke—and with that loss 3bably will go any chance of Aus ilia developing New Caledonia’s ge unworked iron deposits. It s been suggested for years that would be a simple matter for the ips that carry coal from New >tle, NSW, to New Caledonia to skload iron ore for Newcastle elters). rhe Fiji RSPCA has appointed . B. R. Cook, B.V.Sc. (Sydney) veterinary officer at their Walu y, Suva, clinic. Mr. Cook, who 3 arrived in Suva, will travel to •ious parts of the Colony in the irse of his duties.