IRRIGATION MUST PROCEED
LAST PUBLIC WORKS TO BE STOPPED [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 25. The irrigation works in Canterbury are being pushed ahead steadily. The Minister of Public Works (Mr Semple) this evening said that if circumstances compelled a stoppage of any public works irrigation would be the last to be stopped. No reduction in the staffs engaged on irrigation works in Canterbury had been made. The two big schemes now under construction, both getting their water from the Rangitata River, are those for the Mayfield-Hinds and the Ashburton-Lyndhurst districts. The Mayfield-Hinds scheme is of 54,000 acres and the other embraces 34,000 acres. The present proposal is to complete the diversion race and the distribution races by September of next year. ' “ The irrigation, works will be the last to he stopped,” said Mr Semple. “ The cessation of any works through circumstances will be determined by their productive value, And because of the vital necessity of increasing our production the irrigation works must go on. They are economically valuable.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 3
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170IRRIGATION MUST PROCEED Evening Star, Issue 23381, 26 September 1939, Page 3
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