19 FEBRUARY 1965, Page 9

T HE NEED WAS THERE, the demand was there. The difficulty

lay in the terrain. Rugged and romantic to the tourist, it pre- sented a tough, practical challenge to the architects of the'N. Wales grid. To supply the growing demand for High Speed Gas, the Wales Gas Board had to plan a com- plex and ambitious pipe-laying operation. They had to reckon with three major rivers, one hundred and twenty-seven streams and seven miles of solid rock and boulder in the Snowdon range. They had