OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS
DRAINING WAIRARAPA LAKE (To the Editor) Sir, —I know a lot about Lake Wairarapa. I camped on the sand hill at Kahutara about 1886, when the biggest flood ever known occurred. The Maoris would not let the white people open the Lake. When it was closed it would burst open. All the water would be away in about one week. The Pukio returned soldiers know what the stopbank on the river is like. It flooded them until a few years ago when it burst and the water was away in three days. The Wairarapa Lake has been surveyed. There is only one foot of fall to the sea. The 7,000 acres around the Lake were all taken up by the adjoining owners. Nobody can do much with flood water.—-Yours, etc., OLD SPORT. Tauherenikau, March 11.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1943, Page 3
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138OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1943, Page 3
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