LAKE COLERIDGE WORKS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15113, 31 October 1914, Page 2

LAKE COLERIDGE WORKS.

PR OGRESS TO DATE,

The Mayor (Mr H. Holland) returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to Lake Coleridge, with Sir Ernest and Lady Rutherford. #

Speaking to .i "Press ,, representative on tho progress of the works, tho Mayor said that since his last visit all tho machinery had been placed in position, and everything now was in perfect order. The wholo of the plant in the power station was now complete. Unforeseen difficulties had been met with at the intake. The rock was of a broken nature, and would not allow the intake to be carried on as far as was intended. "Difficulties had also been met with in regard to the depth of shingle over tho rock. Two coffer dams had been placed in position, but the oiuer one was damaged by the late gale, and whon the party arrived the inner ono was being washed by a series of heavy waves, and the men had been flooded out Tho rock lmd been excavated insido the second dam, and it was only a nues'iion of when nowr-r "wnuld bo *erit rViwn the line. The swi+ehboaH tti,. fnctp'l last TiirrTit. ni'i a voltn™ o* ~ n l ? r> 0 vol*s was recorded, which i<; y , ->n+ +''" fn»- Xew 7onland. A* l, ->rt Tri»-l-<: all *''<■> l i~Vi , ''"T xi-.i/j ''ono " , ''" aT "i"i*Tr_ n"d +I'ic I'»»>'♦ iriu nlsn iisod *r-1--r.l, r.-o<: ototi vn"*r"-i(T seOHied tO bo 1 . ,11 : ~ iVI " shnn]'] ho frnilnhin -+ what h- "- •.* «««•«- Nation.