DOUBLE-HARNESSING THE RAKAIA.
TO THE EDITOR OP THF. mKSS. Sir,—Mr Thomas Taylor tried to swim into pojmlarity on the tide of the Waiuiakariri. As* a hydromaniac he is a success, but as a river doctor he was a failuse ; his nostrum .as a paltry 3000 horsepower, delivered in Christchurch; quite a homoeopathic dose. Tho new liver doctor whom you have employed to report to you on these dif-ficult-"cases has wider views. He is an Alio-path. He prescribes 50,000 horsepower of the Rakaia mixture. " Harnessing the Waimakariri" is otf, out of date. A get of double harness for the Rakaia _ the thing. But why do we stop here? If, as he tells us, the Waikato river, with a little shoot like the Huka falls, can be broken in to supply Auckland, Napier and Wellington with 10,000 horse-power apiece, besides running all the North Island railways, then surely a team Uko the Waimakariri, Rakaia, Rangitata and Waitaki harn«_ed together would make short work of Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Dunedin, the New Brighton and Mornington trams, the South Island railways, Nickey Oates's motor-car, and the Union KEY-POWER.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11535, 18 March 1903, Page 4
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