COLERIDGE POWER
FORTNIGHT’S SUPPLY ONLY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.' . CHRISTCHURCH, 9. “The position is about as bad as it can be,” sa'id Mr E. Hitchcock, manager <vf the Municipal Electricity Department, after a visit to Lake Coierijdge to-day. Mr MucGibbon, Public Works Engineer, said that the position was definitely worse to-day, since, following on a southerly storm, the inflow from the- Harper River had again decreased, causing a further fall in the level ol the lake.
Work on the diversion of the Rivei Acheron has been held up for a week ,bv snow,
Mr Mac-Gibbon said the lake would supply current at the present rate of .consumption for between one and twweeks only. The only hope to save the situation is heavy nor-west rain, of which, there is no .prospect yet.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1930, Page 5
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