A LEAKY LAKE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3618, 17 July 1923, Page 30

A LEAKY LAKE.

(Feom Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 12. Speaking in the House to-day, Mr Lysnar (Gisborne) said there were leaks in Lake Waikaremoana, and great quantities of water "ere getting away underground. You could hear the waters rushing away. He had received a letter from the chairman of the power board, who stated that the board had consulted a lay engineer, who estimated that the leaks could be plugged at a cost of £IO,OOO. If this were done it would add another 40,000 h.p. He suggested that the Government should do the necessary work before the machinery was put in. The J. G. Coates put quite a different complexion on the matter. He said the amount of power available from the lake was something like 90,000 li.p., and Mr Parry’s scheme provided for ’ only 40,000, so there was an ample margin apart from the trifling leakage. As a matter of fact, the leaks had existed from time immemorial. If the scheme, when developed, lowered the level of the lake to any appreciable extent, which was open to doubt, the leaks would be all the more easily got at if it were at all possible to stop such natural exits. "I would very much like,” said Mr Coates, “to meet the engineer who could

An unusual cargo was landed a few days ago by the s.s. Wingatui, in the shape of eight Shetland ponies (reports the Oamjru Mail). These were a consignment bred by Captain Newton, Okoroire, Waikato district, and purchased by Mr J. Reid. Alma. They are all pedigree mares. Notwithstanding that they had been on the water for two weeks, having come by way of Bluff, they arrived in very fair condition. Burnett and Windsor, two of the prisoners who escaped fiom Mount Eden Gaol, were captured at Bombay on the 9th inst. by, Sergeant Cowan and Constable O’Donnell, Windsor bolted, but was chased by O’Don-*