DRAINAGE SCHEME
REQUEST FOR SUBSIDY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., This Day. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, paid a brief visit to Palmerston North last evening. A deputation from the Makura Drainage Board mad© a request for a pound for pound subsidy on the labour costs of the proposed construction of a channel which would provide the key to the drainage system of a valuable area. THe expenditure contemplated' was £2700 and the subsidy sought was £ 1200. The Minister.received the deputation favourably, and undertook tc go into the matter at an early date. "Government experiments in draining in New Zealand have been fairly expensive," he commented. "I don't say there will never be any good results, but the hopes at first held out have not materialised. It is refreshing to meet a scheme where the settlers themselves have shouldered the burden."
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 11
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145DRAINAGE SCHEME Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1929, Page 11
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