IRRIGATION IN MESOPOTAMIA
RECONSTRUCT! Xt! AX ANCIENT SYSTEM. London, May 20. Sir William W'ilcocKs has completed the preliminary surveys and level takings of lower Mesopotamia. He report 4 to the Constantinople Ooverninent with a view to reconstructing the ancientirrigation system.
Mesopotamia is the district between llii' rivers Tigris iiml Euphrates. Sir William Willcocks, K.C.. M.C., has been consulting; engineer at Cairo. Egypt. since IHIIII. lie was c.|ucutcd at Kuo kee College, lloorkce. India, ami projected ami designed Hie As-inan Dam. lie has published n nunilier „i' works relating to irrigation in Egypt.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 2
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92IRRIGATION IN MESOPOTAMIA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 2
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