THE HUKA FALLS.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 958, 3 August 1903, Page 2

THE HUKA FALLS.

“ It it really is true that the Government have determined to construct 'an electrical station at the lluka Falls this district ought to he on the alert,” states the Napier Telegraph, and these remarks apply with equal force to Gisborne, which has been set down as one of those towns that could be suplied with electricity for motive power from such a source. 1,1 The industrial revolution being wrought in the United States as the result of harnessing Niagara, the various electrical stations in Scotland, Ireland, Switzerland and Germany now utilised, and above all, perhaps, the justifiably sanguine expectations in regard to what power may effect for Italy, should act as stimuli to keep us in Hawke’s Bay on the qui vive in regard to the proposed utilisation of the lluka Falls.” Gisborne has also need to be on the alert. The Telegraph claims that “ so far as distance goes, Napier is the most favorably situated centre to which power generated at the Falls could be distributed, possessing ill this respect a great advantage over Auckland.” We need not go into comparisons in that respect, but assume that all within a reasonable radius will obtain the advantage if the colony takes up the work of utilising for power purposes the water now running to waste. If such motive power were obtainable in Gisborne at a reasonable rate it would revolutionise the place, enabling the raw material to be manufactured in the district instead of being sent thousands of miles away.