KAWARAU VENTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 3

KAWARAU VENTURE

WATER STILL RECEDING'

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night,

A report from Cromwell says that hard frost still prevails With increasing severity and is steadily reducing the level of the 'water in the river. Tho townsfolk this morning witnessed the novelty of vase sheets of ice floating in the Stream arid in quiet cornets in the fiver the witter .was frozen for feet out from tho shore. At Kawaraii bridge yesterday afternoon there was a sheet* of ice right across the river. This has been caused by the severe frost on the greatly decreased body of water and was never before known by the. oldest of the present generation.

A still further fall in the river is certain. A. well-known miner of many •years' residence at the Nevis was in Cromwell yesterday and gave the reliable opinion that the Nevis river is still at what is considered a high level for this period of the year, but is now steadily falling under the influence of the hard frost. A heavy snow storm would have a decided effect on the fall in the river. At the town it is now very noticeable, but no figures are at present available as to the level now reached in the gorges. A few days should see a good deal of work in progress on the river. The proposal to arrange for blasting out obstructions iu'the river is welcomed, but there- is some doubt as to the wisdout of opening the dam. :