Electricity Project
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ICEMBER 1956 is now the date set for the opening of Port Moresby’s hydro-electricity pro at Rouna falls. hen the scheme was first an iced, it was stated that it would auctioning in 1954. It is pos that this estimate will be over aistic by as much as three years he time the power is actually able in Port Moresby, len the project was examined PIM representative in May, a road had been built from tiain Moresby-Sogeri road down ie foot of Rouna Falls. A few s of concrete channelling had laid. This—a little over a mile ngth—is now complete. Three ;ers of a mile of large pipes yet to be installed to connect ace with the pool at the bottom e falls. surge-tank marks the end of ’ace, and-from this point the • will plunge over a cliff almost ’ally down to the turbines in nwer-house below. 5 power-house has yet to be and the foundations are now laid. As PIM understands it, trouble was experienced last when a crack developed in the above the foundations for the ted power-house. The site then o be moved.
"er lines have been laid from te of the power-house 18 miles ft Moresby; and turbines, gen ’s and other power-house tnent are already in Port •by. nessing the Laloki River where tnbles over Rouna Falls has a comparatively easy engineer isk. No dams were needed as is a natural fall of 12 feet the pool at the base of the to the point where the water Tied over the cliff above the -house 1.? miles away.