An immense African irrigation project. to enable the French colony to raise France's cotton, instead of leaving the country dependent upon the United States, is contained in a Bill recently presented in the Chamber of Deputies. It, will require the expenditure of about 250.600.000 francs for damming the Lpner Niger in the French Soudan, and jrrigating three and a quarter million acres. With the Niger utilised between Bammnko and Timbnctoo. it is calculated the yield will exceed that in Amc-
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1921, Page 11
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80Page 11 Advertisements Column 4 Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1921, Page 11
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