RICH SWAMP LANDS.
' I'IAKO. DRAINAGE.i (DY TEI.EOHArn—SrEOIAI. COIiEESPONDENT.) -J ,t > .-if: ' Auckland, February 12. Tile Governmonfc-<li'ainago-;in)rkS'" at / tlie great Piako swamps aro now in full :oporation undor the dii'eit'ibirof Mr.- Breakell, the Government engineer. OnoTclrairu.wilh be seven miles in length," and ;ivheii 'tliej'dredges 'arrive it will be widened.from-20 to*3o.feet'.' So energetically is!,thei;work. boing/executed •that-within' a Few-years-a-kti-ga-aTea. will bo offered, for sale by 7 thopGovernment. ; lt is anticipated that 'fbK'many years,.-sufiici.en.t land will bo sold r .to pajr for' tho"gVe'at''oxpondituro conteuipjatea by ( ]\fr. What the opening' of thoso^iands^will mean to the Thames ana siirfounding districts no one can adequately estimator; MrrßrcakoU'a anticipations are ,£hat of peoplo will be loeateel lthß plains will prove to^' t the. Dominion. .Ir.v" '• Mr. J. ■ Scotchej is.j jjot far behind Mr. Breakoll in his tfhti'cVations, Ho believes that tho.days&ro'fnStJar ji\yay..whoiij there will be 40 flaxmillsTn operation ,01} tho plain's; employing manv hundreds''of: meiii Ana putting , into circulatioiv/linany thousands of pounds weekly. . .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7
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155RICH SWAMP LANDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 7
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