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WESTPORT SCHEME DELAYED CABLE ON SUNKEN LINER (Per United Press Association) WESTPORT. Sept. 9. The Westport Borough Council nas been advised that 35 miles of electric cable intended for use in linking Denniston up electrically with Westport was on a liner which has been sunk by enemy action. The cable was expected to arrive very shortly. This loss will mean that Westport must continue to endure black-outs at night unless there is a heavy or plentiful rainfall, a s the water in Lake Rochfort, the present main source of supply of electric current, is still very low.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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99POWER SHORTAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24399, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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