New Zealand Ministry of Works

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The Ministry of Works ( Māori: Te o te Mātauranga Tāhuhu ), originally founded in 1870 as the Department of Public Works in New Zealand, learned over the years some changes in terms of responsibilities, spin-offs, name changes and finally the resolution in 1988.

History

On June 28, 1870 Julius Vogel presented as finance minister of the government of William Fox of the House of Representatives a financial plan for an ambitious project. His idea was to expand with the help of immigrants, the road and rail system in the country and to lay with the consequent improvement of the transport infrastructure of the country, the basis for an economic boom. In the same year they founded for the implementation of the project, the Department of Immigration and the Department of Public Works.

1928 was merged with the Public Works Act, the Department of Public Works with the Ministry of Works and renamed 1973 in Ministry of Works and Development. With the entry into force of the Ministry of Works and Development Abolition Act April 1, 1988, was dissolved on the Ministry with its authorities and charged with the settlement, which lasted until 1990, the Minister of Lands.

The Ministry of Works and Development was in a Consultancy Division and a Civil Works Division ( German: Consulting Department and Department of Public Works) divided and in the Works and Development Services Corporation ( NZ) Limited, a State -Owned Enterprise ( SOE) New Zealand which was founded on March 28, 1988 specially transferred. With the establishment of Works Consultancy Services on 18 February 1991, the consulting division was transferred to the new subsidiary and eventually sold to Kinta Kellas from Malaysia in November 1996. On April 8, 1997 the name was changed to the company. It is run since under the still valid name Opus International Consultants. The Department of Public Works was also transferred on 18 February 1991 in a subsidiary and called Works Civil Construction. Over several name changes and the sale in 1996, this division is still managed under the company Downer EDI Works.

Well-known projects 1870-1988

Railway projects

Under the Public Works Act of 1876, the construction and operation of the New Zealand rail network has been transferred to the Department of Public Works until 1880 responsible. From 1880, this responsibility was partially handed over to the newly founded Railways Department. Is still under construction routes were further operated and provided the Railways Department as a service. The Department of Public Works got for locomotives and wagons from the Railways Department transferred. Smaller routes, such as the 6.4 km long branch line from Kurow Branch to a lying on the Waitaki River dam project were conducted on their own including for passenger transportation and sightseeing tours to the dam. The line was closed and dismantled in April 1937.

Other projects:

  • Raurimu Spiral, 1898
  • Completed North Iceland Main Trunk Railway, 1908
  • Completed East Coast Main Trunk Railway, 1928
  • Completed Eastern Line, Auckland, 1929
  • Auckland Railway Station, 1930
  • Completed Stratford- Okahukura Line, 1932
  • Completed Wellington Porirua Line, 1935
  • , Completed Kaimai Railway Tunnel 1978

Military projects

  • The armored tracked tractor Bob Semple Tank, 1941
  • The completed hangars for the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Ohakea and Whenuapai, 1939
  • The defense installation of Stony Batter, 1944
  • The coast artillery position Wrights Hill Fortress near Wellington, 1943

Hydropower projects

  • Completed Waitaki Dam, 1935
  • Tekapo A, completed in 1951
  • , Clyde Dam completed in 1989
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