LAKE COLERIDGE
SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION [Pint United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 10. “ One thing is absolutely definite. In tho power supply gets worse the Drainago Board will have to call upon tho Tramway .Board to supiply at with power,” said Mr J. W. Bearaland, chairman of the Drainage Board, this morning i( Whatever else stops the city must have drainage and must give water It does not matter who argues the point or otherwise. If necessary the trains would have to stop.” The seriousness of the situation in regard to Lake Coleridge has impressed itself upon tho heads of many business concerns in the city, and steps are being taken by several firms to arrange for a supply of power in the event of the lake failing completely. In some cases traction engines and motoi tractors have been arranged for, tho idea being to use these to drive the shafting in factories.
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Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 8
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153LAKE COLERIDGE Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 8
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