HOW TO LOWER LAKE FORSYTH.
OLD MAORI METHOD. Some concern has been caused in M yi rown County by the opening of a channel (roiu Lake I'nrsvUi during the recent flood. A member of ihe Count r Council remarked at. a meeting llia.i- the Maori' used to let. out the lake under similar conditions, by making a small channel with flat >ticks. There arc times at the lake when the shingle bar to be removed assumes sucli proportions that several days <►* work arc neeessnuy before the channel ran be properly opened. Last, the conditions were more simple the, wind being favourable, the wyler’high. and f he shingle banks about, level.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17536, 13 May 1925, Page 11
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