AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 October 1923, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

AX IRRIGATIO.X SCHEME. NYDNEY, Out. 11. Parliamentary sanction lias boon given in Queensland lor proceeding with a great irrigation scheme, rivalling iluit of the M ummibidgee, in Nov South Wales, on the .Dawson river, which traverses a fertile coastal region to the south-west of Rockhampton. The initial cost will he 02,000,000. anil a high storage clan 1 which it is proposed to construct will take six ytars to complete. The scheme involves a large hydro-electric generating plant, and it is estimated that there will be a total annual revenue from the undertaking c.f 221 1,000. The scheme comprises a main storage dam. situated in what is known as the Nathan Gorge. The dam will impound something like 2,1*0.000 acres tret of water, which will he carried from the dam to Delusion Crock. 27 miles iurthcr down tiie river, along the natural bed of the; river. The water will be diverted by main and natural channels over the whole cf the area, which is divided into several zones, Castle Creek being the centre zone cf the sett lenient. Iho hydro-electrivity plant: will be situated at the Weir, and will he operated by tic water n> it comes through the sluice. The power from that plant will be supplied over the whole of the area. Mo-i of the area will lie irrigated by ' gravitation, bait the water _v.ii] bo pumped to the higher levels. ! The i stiina l ed C|iian‘tiiy of land available is 2110.000 acres of iriigable land, and in addition there are 200.0p0 acres adiaccni, which are suitable for grazing purposes. Tlie value o! the land before resumption is c-tnuatiul at 10s per acre, and one of the features that undies ibe succors of the scheme possible is that the value of the land will be increased by (he establishment of irrigation facilities to L'l2 per acre. I'l UK PREVENTION, j SYDNEY. Oct. 10. 2, ti: c Prevention A\ eel; has been ; so: ge-i. 'd in order io awaken the publie of Sydney in some ol the simple causes which ol ten give rise io disas- | irons fires, and which could ho easily avoided by the exercise of a little ol , that common sense which is mostly sc i uncommon. For the purposes ol tin. ' j Week a decalogue of Third's has been j framed for the benoht of the public.

One ('(iiniiKimlmoiit. for instance, no vi,.'s people not to look for u gns lonic with a MitUi'i! liehl. for they wl! lit otilv too i rrurioiilly sure to find il Then them i-.- the odhi tc-ninst siilo.kine in led. It is pointed nut thnl. v hilf' fhii-o rrnilt.v t.f litis luil.it sirI'efliMjts 100 :'|V.'|| to hurn. tlio hf'tlr. ;!]•■' not . AeniN'.i' easy tvav to stu‘t u little fire i- to mud in he! with •! nuked ; r;is i t or <'nidlo Itfiir n nto■■"i'lllo enrln-n. hits’ inn- of keroson * o lun h/htinr: the fn"' al'o '.dies >tiK’x;ieeie<l I- -lilt - el tints"-; (il.-o sloes 1.1. e It O 01' ii"! rd or other volatile liquids for teinovtuy spots front clnthint: or lor

cleaning glares. There are scorns of other ways in which you can wreak your home and probably yourself. On the ground that prevention is better than extinction, the authonti-'s a:o going to try to educate the puoitc !n order to reduce the danger ot fre

RACE FROCKS. SYDNEY, Oct. 10 It was once said somewhere or <.liter that tlic* Creator may have re.entod the creation of man, but that IN? bad no reason to repent having made woman. Whether this be right or wrong, the tailor and the eo-tinnier would certainly be the poorer without her, especially on the eve of a great race Carnival. The frocks worn at the big Spring Carnival on which the curtain was drawn a few days ago at Raiulwick must, in sum total, have cost a veritable fortune. The impressions of a woman writer at the carnival may be of interest to the fair sex in Now Zealand. Straight lines, wo are told, with the simple draperies suggestive of ancient Egypt, were most favoured, but ibis was about as near us the Sydney women get to ibe predicted Tutankhamen styles. Tb?-? were Egyptian broideries, but so raodtlicd ns merer to be bizarre. The writer add-: •There were indications of early and mid-Victorian inllneuces in designing, but it appealed as ii the women who have mortified themr.elvos to attain the slender silhouette were reluctant to hide their slimness under boufia.nl -kivis, although one little lady in blue tadfeias looked as il she had raided an old chest and come abroad in great-grea! -grand mamma's crinoline." Green had been promised as the premier colour, hut brown easily eclipsed it in the guy scene.