LAKE ELLESMERE.
Level One Foot Below Zero. The level of Lake Ellesmere is at present one foot below zero, having | fallen 3ft 6in since October 3, when the outlet was opened. It was reported to yesterday’s meeting of the Ellesmere Lands Drainage Board that the outlet had been closed. The total cost of the : work that had been done on this occai sion was about £125. The meeting ap- , | pointed a committee to approach the i I Commissioner of Crown Lands about a ! : proposed deviation of the Hals well ! i River at Motukarara, which would 1 I shorten the course of the river into ! Lake Ellesmere.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20456, 8 November 1934, Page 12
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106LAKE ELLESMERE. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20456, 8 November 1934, Page 12
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