KAWARAU DAM
CLOSING DATE FIXED FOR WEDNESDAY. (Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, June 13. The Kawarau Falls dam gates will be closed at 9 a.m. on Wednesday. At a meeting of the directors of the Kawarau Gold Mining Company this afternoon, satisfactory reports of the conditions at the Lake, river and watersheds were received, and the date for the closing was fixed. The closing of the gates will be much earlier than anticipated. It was not expected that the gates would be closed for mining operations until June 20. On Saturday morning the Lake level on the gauge at the dam read 3ft 34ins, exactly Ift lower than at the time of closing last year. The river just below the dam was at the 2ft 7in mark, as against 3ft 4in last August. All the tributaries are reported to be low, and the weather has been clear and frosty. It is expected that the river will drop to its lowest level by Wednesday night, and mining should commence on Thursday morning.
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Southland Times, Issue 20203, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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171KAWARAU DAM Southland Times, Issue 20203, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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