BIG DAMS BUILT IN INDIA
-- WORK OP FORMER NEW ZEALAND SOLDIER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. A New Zealander who built in India a dam which involved the shifting of 1,000,000 cubic yards of soil, arrived at Wellington in the Dominion Monarch to-day. Pie is Major N. Isaac, who after an absence of nine years from the Dominion, plans to settle down to less spectacular construction business in New Zealand.
Major Isaac left New,.Zealand with the fourth • reinforcements, 2nd N.Z.E.F. Later he transferred to the British Army and was posted to India. On the way' he met a British servicewoman, who is now his wife. Major Isaac, by contract, built two dams in India, and they were the first big irrigation projects handled by mechanical equipment in that country. The bigger dam is the Nagwa dam in the United Provinces. Here 1,000,000 cubic yards of soil were shifted. The other dam is at Khajuri.
Major Isaac and his wife will li'*e at Geraldine, where he proposes to set up in business.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 4
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170BIG DAMS BUILT IN INDIA Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 4
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