"POSITION WORSE"
CANTERBURY’S SHORTAGE OF POWER LAKE STILL FALLING Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. “The position is about as bad as it can be,” said Mr. H. E. Hitchcock, manager of the municipal electricity department, after a visit to Lake Coleridge today in connection with the shortage of electric power. Mr. R. G. Mac Gibbon, Public Works engineer, said the position was definitely worse today, for following the southerly storm the inflow from the Harper River had again decreased, causing a further fall in the level oi the lake. Work on the diversion of the river Acheron had been held up for a week by snow. Mr. Mac Gibbon said the Lake Coleridge station would supply current, at the present rate of consumption for between qne and two weeks. The only thing that would save the situation was heavy northwest rain, of which there was no prospect at present.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 1
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