WATER POWER.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14282, 24 August 1910, Page 5

WATER POWER.

LAiCI'J OOLEPIDCE SCHEME. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON", August "23. In reply td a. deputation from t.lie Chrisichunh Ciiy Council to-day ui>cisiii t!u> speedy development- of the Lake <"iiL'ii<l ljc water power scheme tile ilouH. AicKeny.io said that Lake Coleridge was one of the easiest, developed schemes in New Zealand, lie had all llie neeci-sary del ails in the -drape of surveys and iie recognised thai we- had a uood market in Canterbury. If Parliament voted tile nionev the Lake C,.lerid K e scheme could be started in a couple of months. Tlii re was no deubt the Coverimieu t would have to start a scheme ill both islands and soeiim that Lake v'olerit'.L'e had been applied for first he thought the Government was under some obligation to provide electricity. He was considering whether the whole schenie should lie treated as one system or divided into localities. The question of selling power in bulk or otherwise must be rnnsiderod. If the Government was to distribute electric power if should take over whatever work had been dmip. His idea was that this r.ower rlhould be made a romniete_ monopoly for the people. Lako OWWidjie wa.s the first scheme, that must lie started in the South Island.