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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 8

As in the case of the Arapuni mishap, the present trouble at Lake Coleridge has given the rumour-mongers scope for their imaginative facility. A jocular remark made by a member of the Christchurch City Council that “there were now two big holes in the lake” has led to an amazing series of rumours to the effect that last year’s earthquake opened up fissures in the bottom of the lake. So much (credence was given to these rumours that Mr. R. G. Mac Gibbon, district electrical engineer, considered it necessary last week to refute them. There was absolutely no truth in any suggestion, lie said, that there was any leakage from the lake, and the “two big holes” were the two intakes. The eleventh annual bull fair on Irehalf of the members of the New Plymouth Jersey Cattle Club is pencilled to be held at New Plymouth show grounds on Monday next, September 30. A superior entry of 77 bulls has been catalogued for this fixture, including in which is a number of direct sons Zealand’s outstanding importations, while sous of dams that have produced from 500 to 7001 b. fat are numerous. Catalogues are now available from the auctioneers. See advertisement column of this issue.