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LAKE ELLESMERE DRAINAGE SCHEME.
To the Editor. Sir, —As Mr Joblin and the eight or ten gentlemen who gave evidence as to the source of supply to r,he above lake were so certain that it was from the sea, and that T was wrong in contending that it was from the watershed and springs of the lake, I beg to draw your attention to the present height, the lake has attained with ■ out any help from the sea. It is perceptibly rising daily, with no sea and not much rainfall, and is now almost a freshwater lake, certainly available for beasts, and in a short thno will be fit for man ; and 1 do not think it is 2ft above tide level now, and 3ft short of being as high as it was last year when let out, without wind or in calm.—Yours, etc., WILLIAM COOP.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 622, 30 June 1882, Page 2
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148Original correspondence Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 622, 30 June 1882, Page 2
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