The intake to the tunnel that will carry the water from Lake Coleridge to near the site of the power-house.
Caption: The intake to the tunnel that will carry the water from Lake Coleridge to near the site of the power-house, beside the Rakaia River. The lake is to the right of the picture. There is a shaft under the nearer building, from which the tunnel is being worked. The men in the foreground are working at the intake, which is being made by the Public Works Department.
Description: Lake Coleridge Canterbury, where the Government is erecting a hydro-electric generating station to supply Canterbury with electric power.
Source: The weekly press, 9 Oct. 1912, p. 39
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