POWER FROM COLERIDGE
POSITION DEFINITELY WORSE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) • CHRISTCHURCH, .Sept-. 9
••Tire position is about as 'bad as it can be.” said Mr. E. Hitchcock, manager- of the Municipal Electricity Denartment ,after a visit to "Lake Coleridge to-day. Mr. Mac Gibbon, Public Works Department engineer, said the position was definitely worse to-day, as follo-w- --- the southerly storm tlie inflow from the Harper River had again decreased, causing another fall in the level of the lake. on the diversion of the River Acheron lias been delayed* a week bv snow. Mr. Mac-Gibbon s-aid; the lake would supply current at the present rate of consumption for between one and two weeks. The orily hope* to save the situation was a heavy north-west rain, of which there was no prospect 1 yet.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 September 1930, Page 5
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