TU© drainage of Lalce. E-llesmeie, to provide ' grazing ■ and .cropping areas, has been considered-for some time by a sub-committee of the Canterbury. Progress' Letigue.- which,- before long, .will mlike a-.re port to a committee r-efiresienfing ' the league and -the .Ellesmere. Land Drainage Board. The committee has been considering.a ■ modification of the drainage proposals . made, by the Public Works Department ’toward, the.' end of la’st year' » This report stated that the ‘only scheme, worthy, of. consideration was one embracing - the construction 'of. a perinanenfi outlet', by nfeans Qf a mole, ,to tlio sea near. Tauiuutu, and the, consequent .reclamation of 30,001) acres of the lake bed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11947, 18 May 1933, Page 3
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