ERIGATION FOR CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20495, 14 March 1932, Page 13

ERIGATION FOR CANTERBURY.

fi Jfov I tender my heartiest "Simple Simon," for diagnosing our present 1^ for the same-' £■2*l otters have not ap!i wJe the Government could 2"S yWß 4perceut., but 400 per -L«ri»?aHthe unemployed in .New 2ri t «do»ic Canterbury one or ifiMt WMI'WW agricultural dibZ£tS™m l>on*t borrow 21. don't borrow at home, wae »» iuteriwil eurM vilh the »pcin«- and nn--tote- object ot irrigaling the KSuryPbiM. If ever a country Heded irrigation, it is Canterbury. J IB tot talking of some o per cent, ot k«n rieh »«*, vrkieh can get along wttost it, bat theater land underbid with gavel »t <"» to two feet kaeata the wfacft »Aieb fwms at , lent « per o»t «f»e total area. 1 ' laat neea" to f*B **»« who bavc seen urifattw paWfe* elsewhere what it know. It would I lug, that every acre of ( he worth at least £3O rrigated laud in Califoran acre. 1 should say ag<-* Plains land here is r acre, mean, amongst other ristchurch would soon lopulution; for a town tion of the productive >untry behind it. This •aj to the bankers and in such a scheme must :al politicians and amabc started right. Pay get Klw-ood Mead to the United States of the situation in hand the law. He started Australian irrigation be United States of what they were doing >id the Com in on wealth I obtaiued his services Irrigation Department, ind ability would save llions. 1 read that the rater on every irrigated ►tago was £25. If that »d in Canterbury then [in. I should estimate somewhere between £3 e—if, and only if, the «rere in the hands of rery latest excavating i be used, and none of o\-el nonsense to make on ad infinitum on this forbids. Ask any agriaa travelled and used it I say is not true. I a« run irrigated farms Tor many years, one in conditions of soil and ost identical with those for £6O an acre. The d to come sooner or ie is better suited than m the memory of this it is still'fresb in the irtnerg. Anybody who at it slowly, as if it experiment, does not i talking about. All it tnftttee of Canterbury «r to get together and TBUTH SEEKEK.