DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 144, 6 July 1937, Page 6

DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION.

As bearing on tke productive eapacity of a large iieigkbbUring area of fertile country tbe people of Hastings are fully ibterestfed in the proposed joint schemes of drainage aiitl ifrigation that haVe also been diScussed with Mr, Sullivan during iiis Visit. On these, hoWevef} as he has pointed out; dedikion 1I6S father With his colleaguO, the Mihister, of Publie Works, than with himself. At the same time, he is more or less directly interested inasmuch as the proposals are the outcome of reports thaflfi by Officers of the Department of Scientific and ihdustfial Eesearch, of Which he is the ministerial head, so that he shOuld be ih a position at least to exercise a good deal of influencS With Mr. S6mple, when the latter returns from the hardly-earned holiday he is about to take. it is therefore Well to be able to note that S0 fai1 ds he has beett able tb gd into the proposals himself, Mr.. Sullivan would seem to be altogether favourably impressed with them. As to these plansj however, a lot more ' engineering and other data have yet to be gathered ahd it ihhy be hoped that progrOsg will meafltinie b0 fhhde ih seeurihg theih. Rbf the pfgseht the thanks of the community are dhe to Mr. Sullivan personally for the sympathetic ahd reeeptive way in which he has listened to the representhtions inade to him with regard bbth to these projects and tb the railway station.