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3 unusual facts about Lake Coleridge


John Jackson Oakden

He then purchased Acheron Bank Station near Lake Coleridge in the Canterbury Region, which he successfully developed and held until 1877, when he sold up to enjoy an affluent retirement at Riccarton.

Silston Cory-Wright

On behalf of Cory-Wright and Salmon, he supervised the installation of Escher Wyss turbines at Lake Coleridge, and many hydroelectric units for English Electric.

This was a similar power station to that planned for the first hydroelectric station to be built by the New Zealand Government, at Lake Coleridge in the South Island.



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