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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15898, 24 January 1924, Page 9

Italy’s “ white coal ” —the electric power produced by the harnessing Of her mountain torrents —has unfortunately proved to be a potential danger like the coal mine. In the hills northeast of Bergamo a great dam was built last year; it was a furlong wide and 90 feet high, and formed a new lake called Gleno, which supplied power to several electricity stations below. On Saturday, December 1, the lake, swelled by heavy rain and melting snow, burst through the dam, and the huge mass of water, rushing down two narrow valleys of Scalve and Camoniea, swept all before it. Villages and numerous cotton-mills and ironworks which depended on the hydro-electric works were destroyed, and it is known that over 500 people were drowned. As such accidents rarely happen nowadays, it would seem" that the snowfall and rainfall which the darn had to withstand must have been under-estimated. —London Spectator. Barraclough’s Magic Nervine Stops Toothache. 1/6 everywhere. Progandra Cures Corns Quickly, i/0.

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