Hawkesbury (N.S.W.) Farmers Want Floods!
Some years ago a New South Wales Minister for Works convened a meeting of Windsor district farmers to consider a proposal for the construction of flood banks along the Hawkesbury River to prevent the flooding of farms. The farmers turned up at the meeting—and opposed the anti-flood idea. Hawkesbury farmers don’t mind floods. Such floods may sweep away all their crops, but that happens only now and then. The damage done by destruction of crops is more than repaid by the value of the silt .deposited on the farms by floods. The Hawkesbury flats have been farmed for more ;han a hundred years, and no fertiliser has been used. Despite the absence of fertilisers the flats are growing crops as luxuriant as ever—thanks to silt. Hawkesbury farmers don’t want flood prevention.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 85, 23 August 1948, Page 2
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136Hawkesbury (N.S.W.) Farmers Want Floods! Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 85, 23 August 1948, Page 2
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