It is stated that those who have properties adjoining the Wairarapa Lake, 100,000 acres of which are under water six months of the vear. have had surveyors engaged with the object of evolving a scheme to drain the lake. An elderly settler stated that he expected to live to see the land now undt>r water containing modern homes and kitchen gardens.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 15
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