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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2375, 3 February 1915, Page 6

Sir' Elliott Lewis, of Tasmania, is impressed with the possibilities of the Lake Coleridgo power scheme. He visited the lake on Friday with Mr. L. Birks, assistant electrical engineer, and in an interview he 6aid that although he was not an expert he found a great deal to in-* terest him in the works. ''Mr. Birks and other officers had supplied him with much valuable information. He felt that it was a very fcasable and simple scheme, and he hoped that it would be adequately reproductive. In Tasmania,, Sir Elliott explained, a similar scheme ha 6 been taken in hand by the State. In the middle of the island there is a large tabieland, about 3500 feet above sca-level. On it there are several lakes, and one of these has been used a- source The lake covers an area of 26,000 acres. In a river that leads ont of tho lake there are two falls, and at the bottom of them a generating station is being erected. The power station i 6 about seventy miles from Hobart, which will absorb most of the current, but it is intended to supply current also to other centres. Speaking of Tasmania's prospects, Sir Elliott said that the State had not been alfcctcd 60' much by the war as by a series of frosts, which had set back the fruit, crops. Sir Elliott has been through parts of the North Island, lie will -leave for the south..