LAKE COLERIDGE NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16486, 27 February 1914, Page 11

LAKE COLERIDGE NOTES.

[From Our .Correspondent.] . , KISSEL'iON, February 24. Very good weather has been experienced at Lake Coleridge during the past three weeks. The roof of the power-house is almost completed, and only about one-third of the final coating of malthoid remains to be built. Quite an army of fitters is engaged in fixing up the machinery and switchboards and other appliances. The big travelling crane is _now in position, and will greatly expedite tho erection of the heavier parts of tho machinery. The plasterers are busily engaged putting the finishing touches to the building inside. The labourers are busy clearing up and stacking the timber that was used for the boxing. Work on tho pipe-line is proceeding. One line of the half-inch pipes is complete, and a start has been made to rivet up the second line. The quarterinch pipes, which form the last link between the surge chamber and the power-house, are on the site. Tlio contractors estimate that if nothing unforeseen occurs the work should be completed in May. Work in the tunnel is going along well, and the plasterers are making good progress with the work. Some minor additions are being carried out at the intake, and the walls are to be raised four feet all round. It is estimated that the majority of the mrin working at the tunnel and intake will be finished in about two months or less.

A load of camp gear has arrived in advance of the Canterbury College students who are going into camp at Kisselton for a fortnight. Lake Coleridge is becoming quite a placo of interest, judging by the large number of visitors to tho works nearly every Sunday. • Intending sight-seers should take the Glentunncl Road. The road via Hororata is very much cut up with the traction engine traffic. Tlio school is to be opened very shortly, and Mr Crawshaw, relieving teacher of the Education Board, will carry on the work until the school can be properly graded and a permanent teacher appointed. Tho transmission line is making satisfactory progress, and one line is within eight miles of the power-house. It is the intention of the contractors to bring up one line to the power-house and then work back towards town with the other.