DRAINING LAKE WAIRARAPA
Mr. R. T. Stewart, hydraulic engineer, of Dunedin, who designed the riversweeper used iu cleaning and deepening the Avon River in Christchurch, and who recently submitted plans for the drainage of Lake Ellesmere in Canterbury, left Wellington yesterday evening'by the Limited express for Auckland. Mr. Stewart, who arrived in Wellington on Tuesday evening, has been commissioned by an Auckland syndicate interested in kauri gum lands to report upon a scheme for working the kauri gum deposits by means of a hydraulic elevating plant similar to those used in connection with alluvial goldmining iu Otago. Asked by a ‘‘Dominion” reporter if the method which he proposed to adopt in draining Lake Ellesmere could be adopted to drain the Wairarapa Lake, Mr. Stewart replied that the method to be adopted at Lake Ellesmere would be quite suitable for Lake Wairarapa, and that the land which would be drained in the latter instance would probably bo more valuable than that around Lake Ellesmere. __________
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 15, 12 October 1928, Page 14
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