NO RAIN AT COLERIDGE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 11 September 1930, Page 5

NO RAIN AT COLERIDGE

FURTHER FALL IN LAKE.

POWER USERS CONCERNED.

ißy Telegraph—Tress Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 10

No good news came from Lake Coleridge to-day. The weather wais fine and clear, but a falling barometer gave hone for a north-west- wind with rain. The level of the lake fell again to-day, but the Public Works engineers are not now giving the exact figures. Several meetings in the city to-day showed the concern of power users about the situation. The retailers have agreed tentatively to cut out the late shopping night, provided all the retailers abide by the decision. Street lighting in the city to-night was cut down to a minimum. Most streets were in complete darkness, but a few lights still .showed in Cathedral Square and the busiest intersections.

The picture theatres will he greatly affected hv the power failure.- All except two of the newest theatres have stand-by plants, but these were installed for silent films and are not sufficiently powerful to operate the “talkies.”

The Drainage Board to-dav ran its own suction gas pumping plant, hut unfortunately it can carry only half the load. A new pump is being obtained for the water supply, hut it cannot lie operating for some weeks vet.

’l'lte greatest economies are nossihle in the domestic use of current, hut the authorities are believed to- lie at a loss to discover how to enforce economies which would in cases admittedly cause serious hardship.