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Description

During 1970, Palmerston North gas supply changed from using coal gas, manufactured at the Napier Road gasworks, to using natural gas, piped from the Kapuni gas field in Taranaki. Natural gas first arrived in the city on 23 June 1970 and the Napier Road gasworks ceased operations on 22 November 1970.

Identification

Object type
Image
Content type
Document
Identifier
2025Pa_PNCC9-5-1-F1_043379
Archive
PNCC - Gas Department Publications
Relation
PNCC 9/5/1, Folder 1
Date
1970
Digitisation ID
2025Pa_PNCC9-5-1-F1_043379
Format
Paper
Held In
PNCC Archives

Taxonomy

Community Tags
gas department,
pncc,

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