SERIOUS POWER SHORTAGE
LAKE COLERIDGE LEVEL FALLS From Our Own Correspondent CHRISTCHURCH, Today The power supply shortage in Canterbury and districts served by the Lake Coleridge generating station is becoming more serious, and unless heavy rains fall in the back country within a few days the position will become really critical.
The district electrical engineer, Mr. R. G. Mac Gibbon, reported on Saturday that no rain had fallen in the area draining into Lake Coleridge. More water was being taken out of the lake than was flowing into It from the Harper River and other feeder streams, and further economies in the use of power would have to be made to balance the steady fall in the lake level.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 14
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119SERIOUS POWER SHORTAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1071, 8 September 1930, Page 14
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