LEVEL OF LAKES
RAIN CAXJSES SMALL RISE WELLINGTON, April 23. i Outs in rationing and severe economy in tlie use of electric power must, it is i stated, continue for alfhough the two I lakes, Taupo and Waikaremoana, have ; risen a trifle, their levels are still far | below normal. Taupo lias rison about four inches but is still four feet nino 1 inches below the control level and Wai1 karemoana, rising six inches over the weekend, is still ten feet below the overflow level.fl Engitieers at the two lakes advised thc llydro-eieetric Department at. midi day today that rain was slackening and j the weather was apparently clearing, and that relief in the power position 1 was so temporarv as to make no differ1 euce in the overall position.
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 April 1946, Page 8
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