LAKE ELLESMERE.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20921, 31 July 1933, Page 8

LAKE ELLESMERE.

OUTLET TO BE MADE *4|ffi| Since midday on Friday JpS tractors and dragline scoops JfNH been in use on the shingle Lake Ellesmere, and it is that an outlet to the lake vwjHH been made by Thursday nigtt.|g| shingle bank this year is <<MH more substantial than it li*M§H| in recent years, and the **jiH| the Ellesmere Land Drainage jWjj|J is made more difficult in ****?|Sb| level of the lake is coß^anilHH The water in the lake ** J*ffflH registers two feet on the board's datum gauge, which fcJflH more than high tide lereL 3j§Hß| times the lake is a foot or II ttjHH higher, the extra olun *j'*9H of course, greatly facilitating *MH scouring out of the oa ***jßHß men are employed on * B * , tion work. ,_-_«. Replying to the comniawß WHS the flounder fishing is Hl*-'Mall affected by the cutting let at the usual place at Fm|fl£MHn| Point, Mr J. Mackenzie. ajWJBHI to the board, stated the board appreciated men's position, but was to drain the lake. It wawßM if this could be done as SB *"2SBHH by making the cut at the fMKgjHm gested—about half a beach to the nortb^east-«WJM shingle there, not havmg_ turbed for 25 years, wouM«g| readily. Mr Mackeniie.sa» gSBSI was a matter of opinion Js|jH| whether the fishing was w affected by the cut. 'mm