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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4475, 4 October 1922, Page 4

To utilise a fall of water in order to raise water much higher than the height pf the fall seems an impossibility, Nevertheless it has been achieved by a Britislh inventor, and without ithe use of any power except that supplied by the falling water. The action is entirely automatic and there are no moving parts except the sluices. - The apparatus consists of a •series of tanks and tubes built into (the form of a tower, suggesting a kind of wa.ter ladder. The paradox is only apparent, as the volume of water raised above the level of the fall is less than that falling over the weir, although the efficiency is surprisingly high. The apparatus is expected to have a wide field of usefulness in irrigation, especially where there exists a head of water that cannot at present be utilised in any other way. Another advantage is that a fall of dirty water can be used to lift clean water or any other fluid from another source. The inventipn has been patented in all countries, and astonishment has been expressed that this discovery was not made by tne Ancients, as it owes nothing to modern mehcanical progress. It is, in fact, a supremely eleven application of the natural mechanism of water .and air, by which alternate suction and pressure is set going in the series of tanks, and continues for ever*—or so long as the stream does not dry up.