NAPIER'S TIDAL FLATS
Use for Asparagus Growing The pumping of surface water away from the tidal flats, "whieh the earthquake had so kindly given to the district," was the subject of congratuiatory comment by Mr J. E. Marks, A.M. Inst. C.E., in his address on irrigatvm to the Napier Eotary Club yesterday. It was his belief however, that these areas would have to be irrigated aa well as drained. That was nothing new. In the Saeramento valley, California, one could see water being pumped out of the land and returned by means o t irrigation at the same time. The problem was one of regulation. Commenting . on the proposal to use the tidal reclamations for asparagus growing, Mr Marks said he thought there should be a great opening for asparagus growing on a large scale in New Zealand. In Sacrajnento, where asparagus was grown and canued on a grand scale, it was so much to the forefront in iudustrial life that the special asparagus supplement.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 8
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165NAPIER'S TIDAL FLATS Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 8
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