WATER UNDERNEATH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 294, 6 August 1932, Page 4

WATER UNDERNEATH

MR. THOMPSON BELIEVES THEB MYSTERY LAKE IS FILLED * FROM BELOW. NO FLOOD TEST YET. Bm. "I do not wish to enter into controversy with regard to the J0!lBe tion at Arapuni," said Mr. A. Thompson yesterday morning wjw j spoken to by a -"Morning Post" repff«jn. sentative. "I have been credited £ a lot of things which I did not to convey," he added, and said/e'j^Hjj siniply gone to Arapuni to gh'e Bf, people the benefit of any power he possessed as a water-diviner, acBthi to help those in charge. Bsa However, he was quite willfoB , Bre; chat over the position which j arisen without criticising the neers. The filling up of what ha* Bjch come known as the Mystery a: discussed, and he said he had ne' j seen the lake when he first VeD {.B^; Arapuni, but he was firmly nnder B impression that it was connected^B^'j the underground river. * The n .S of the lake was prohahly due to b ages in the stream forcing the ^B1 1 hack up into the hollow of the a* 0. and held at the natural level un H leased. The engineer in charge S pooh-poohed the idea of the laae Bg^ ing connected with the underg^B stream, but considered that ne traced the infiow from seepa?e B had put in a concrete wall to Pre B this, but the water was stih ®ld ( so it could not be caused by s°ef ,BrLa According to newspaper rep01. s» B^fio. leakage at present discovere 'I located in the headrace, and ^ B*aa due to the underground water, b /Beuil stream was undoubtedly un"e,JjB' Co' and would always.be a source ° ^ ger. There had been no big eSA on account of the absense ft water. Both autumn and e*B:: been exceptionally fine and ne B like to see the work testsd />' ,B p flood hefore being satisfie'l ■ was entirely safe. That ^'° Blst the superme test. , ,|..B Sjeaking of the statemen B^» bore had been put down Ban^ powerhouse and that no mJBi'an been found a,t 400 feet, Mr- Bof - son said he did not go much * ^ test because the water could ' B^g feet away and not be deteC ® ^ Ba^; bore, he understood, had .^e'c,BtQ down ahout six feet fronr t^jjBjf j of the powerhouse and he , that if another bore werc another six feet away watei ^.^Btvej struck at 200 feet. At that P ^ ^ underground river was aho^ K j