KAWARAU FALLING

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 73, 17 June 1927, Page 2

KAWARAU FALLING

A STEADY DROP Press Assi^ciction. DUNEDIN. Thur.H Slowly yet steadily the aver- is falling, though the lw «*»0 comparative data at « At Cromwell at nine th*« fall of 2ft Sin in 24 hoarf 0 ™ 3 *' » corded, and there was a fail as “Yhc'vv "lu.'T-" 1 1:181 -Yu£ tr I A heavy all ot irom 9ft to iSfY* pYV'Y a mdYiY^«te : a lower i'- ve; than ~ ‘ Ver ; year any ***««« l4j i . -f urther up the rivers fall I raid That n °the ‘ fan" a, ! S Tt te ie th^ar“n B ' V Me s la U/S “ has dropped 7ft 6ir. £ i 1 recorded three / ' I after the closing last vear *)’» in on the flat claims* immediJSTt 4 - low the Development Comuant^’a^ level “ U 1 OI IMn below la *« YaS Drainage is slow at places, and a crepancies in the fall along thelit course prove that the bar! “-"'v and silt abutments and holding back the water; bat thL little doubt that the level will ls than last year’s. w io *u Probably days will elapse before maximum low level will be reaSLi Several miners in the C, Bridge Company prospected In .T® mi sing crevice found last year . collected about £ 4 worth of gold n morning. Lessening of the filmi® it imperative that the burs of roekT!! silt across the river should be vw, away at the earliest date. i n (S' 1 the toes of the slips now blockini r river there is a grave danger oflao," mg the hillsides to slip down river channel.