IRRIGATION.
THE MTJEUAY SYSTEM. AN IMPORTANT EEPOET. By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyHcM • Melbourne, March t5. The report of the Murray Waters Commission urges that, except for stock and domestic supply for settlement within a reasonable distance of streams, irrigation should be deemed of paramount use in connection with the Murray system. The report advocates the canalisation of the Murray and Murrumbidgee by means, of locks and weirs, and saggosk that in the event of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia failing to come to an agreoment regarding regulation of the river and its tributaries, an agreement for the same purpose be entered into between any two of the States concerned.
The report also suggests the appointment of an inter-state board to consider the whole question.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 7
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124IRRIGATION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 7
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