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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2394, 25 February 1915, Page 3

Mr. L'. Birks, electrical engineer to the Public Works: Department, paid a .visit to Geraldine on Friday, and made inquiries a-s to, the possibilities, of the Lake Coleridge scheme being utilised iu the locality for lighting and power purposes. The county clerk, : Mr. Stubbs, showed him specimens of lime, etc., from Kakahu and surrounding district, and Mr. Birks was very favourably impressed whh tin possibilities of putting to use the marble and limestone deposits and the pipe-clays, and he pointed to the possibility of laying an electric' trolly line from the districts named connecting with the railway. Mr. Birks has promised to pay a longer visit to' the locality as soon as possible. Mr. Birks told a "Press" reporter that ,the work at Lake Coleridge was proceeding very satisfactorily, and it was expected that the full 24 hours' service would be available oarly this week. Commissioner Hodder, of the Salvation Army, who cancelled part of his tour in Taranaki to attend the K. of K. pledgo meeting at Trentham Military Camp on Tuesday evening, left town for Eltham yestorday. He is due at Stratford today; Inglewood to-morrow, and New Plymouth on Saturday. The Commissioner will return to town early in the week, and will leavo for the Dunedin division in mid-March. •