Journalist Tina White's weekly "Memory Lane" article in the Manawatū Standard. A new book,* Power: Electrical Supply to the Manawatū* by Colin Rush looks back at the history of local power supply since 1878. The author joined the Manawatū-Oroua E...

Creator:      Tina White
Place:          Manawatū
Date:          February 1, 2014

The Manawatu-Oroua Electric Power Board’s building committee inspect the substation; from L to R: Roger Meads (Engineer-Manager); Murray Macphee (Engineer); Matt Green and Russell Signal (Board Chairman). This substation, in Flygers Line near the ...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Flygers Line, Palmerston North
Date:          October 3, 1979

Men’s huts (R) and the cookhouse (L) at the Mangahao Hydro Electric Power Scheme. _ _

Creator:      Charles E. Wildbore
Place:          Mangahao
Date:          1922