IRRIGATION WORKS
LAST TO BE STOPPED MINISTER’S INTENTIONS (I'tv Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Irrigation works in Canterbury ; ire being pushed ahead steadily. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple, said last evening that if circumstances compelled a stoppage of any public works irrigation would be the last to be stopped. No reduction in staffs engaged on irrigation works in Canterbury had been made.
Two big schemes now under construction, both getting their water from the Rangitata River, are those for the Mayfleld-Hinds and the Ashburton-Lyndhurst districts. The Mayffeld-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 .ext year. f “Irrigation works will be the last to be stopped,” said Mr. Semple. “The cessation of any works through circumstances will be determined by their productive value. Because of the vital necessity of increasing our production, irrigation works must go on. They are economcially valuable.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 10
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165IRRIGATION WORKS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 10
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