LAKE ELLESMERE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20102, 4 December 1930, Page 13

LAKE ELLESMERE.

, i6 E«NG OF DRAINAGE w board. schem^considered

... „f the Ellesmere The a fter tho triennial main age he id yesterday morning. el>f! r e Messrs E. M. Morten and rtnev (Tai Tapu), J- sha 'P ?•/' flickering (Lad b r°ok s ) I • did »•■■■ w Downey (Hals]er ( _ Mr Morten * !l >' a -mously elected chairman, seat remarking that twenty-first year of o&ce^ it 1 Ooinnjitteo was appomt-cd A ;^ na n°e Mi Her and chosen: Messrs Morten, jjjj-j? and C°°P- ; rod froin the Tapa- \ retter w ?® ii assnr ing the Board Counci weather on , y st nl ttot duriDgj Council's water- % periods the intake races- were closed by the m!n and no river water .was down the races into The letter was received. the dalm for Demonstration. TvTth* J orr^^ n tf n A? S."Paterson cuncernuig the £1Q() for a demonout by a shingle scoop v.tniTlfl bar between Lake kjo& 4110 Ja ihe sea. At the last meetjgjjnerff j been refused on the jgthe agreement to remove under the # ®„Titions 350 cubic yards hours had not been . n & tie company had been Alfl l !?°i. tho Board did not consatisfactory for the of it. -A letter was read lawyers demanding f"® f the £IOO agreed upon for Smullir-S engineer, of » •Uin wrote requesting details ot gSemente for the clearing of a P ™ through the 6hmgle bar in g&to lake, and offering if Sf to be satisfactory, to work. The secretary (Mr was. ordered to Bupply information.

1 Piepoeals for Draining Lake. i-tetter was read from H. G. Royds for a mechanical 3of opening the bar and dramiff i'u Mr Coop thought that S method would only be Siative and that it would not a permanent opening or the oFthe lake. Ho suggested Eftha Board's area should be entod and that the trouble should not an. .Ellesmsre problem but iGmterinry problem. The Board deu3ed to ask Mr Royds for fuller deoutlet was also ■ule by J. JL Holland. He proposed ' eonatract a non-scouring channel m with pfles and to erect at the ianth a system of non-positive piles to Mtert it from the wave action and "Smthe Single flow. Automatic flood'•ljet would 1)6 provided to keep bacK t&t&e. His letter was received. Jn his report iho secretary drew the Board's attention to a drag-line scoop rstem at present being operated in the Ashley Tiverhe4 by Neiman Bros., tad recommended consideration of it to the Bowd. •; ' A representative, of A. S. Faterson and Company waited ot>«" the Board offering on behalf of hj» firm to open a channel and drain, the lake, provided tbo.Board would guarantee that the la&g, when the channel was opened. mid nin-frwrfy.w He: also offered to the channel open for a reasonable •afc'Jle chairman informed him that j iad nb "power to give such L miract outright, but "would have lo widcr the for palling takn' ioT .tha work, in which, of aim A.. 8. Pater&on and Company auM compete. Oallioc for Tenders.

i &taEsion on this point arose, Maters claiming that it would take t» much time to call for tenders and tint, cbosdaring the urgency of the fork,; tlia Board's engineer should be i ostnKted to begin the work with kfwinwn scoops at once. In reply to»question the secretary said he tioogjit there Iras a good chance of I ironing the lake, provided the »«tbr held calm. The shingle bank raV of average height, and with fuoiaUe luck it should be possible i to.it the work successfully. WCwp proposed that the Board's ®J|rocer should be instructed to hare mmtoA-done as Foon as possible. The *l®. he said, was too urgent to risk by calling for tenders. It *wd : take. a week for the various wderera to study the specification, •JUT the time they had "got their P®Bt to the scene another week would - thought, and Mr •peed with him, that A. S. f™S ri,o &» plant would not be able •• the work, and that it" was not S , **7 «>y experiments at such a T®" tune. Mr Miller, however, what Weald be done ebout the jS]"® had prepared schemes. The *■» had been asking for schemes for and it ought not ,®We them now. ' let the lake out now," .Ma chairman, "it doesn't mean riwto* S?? 80 on with any other jg'jb Ihis is an exceptional time." to , IM ?i^ no y rooved as an amendf 'Demotion that tenders be tfert w' p® in °n Saturday night; tea®?. Committee draw up WniiJ!? ns "work, and that in : tfayr"?P® "ie secretary make prottiaJ5 T e , Bu Pp!.v of horses for the Mr Miller seconded i an d it was carried, motion, was lost. fi» a f W&tion-'of Mr Coop it was a Ppoint the following com- ' ]P~ er *the various schemes wO n Put forward and to re- ■ recommendations on Coop, Miller, and Macon behalf of Mr G. W. bomber of the r *P° rt °n the lake „ e M /. ; M - Chrystall. A I ™ al >Ks for the report *^£M*&bo7 n e° B ° ard