BIG IRRIGATION SCHEME
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, July 13
A large Ministerial party visited the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, which is under the Burrenjuck scheme. The Hon. A. Griffith, Minister of Public jWorkis, performed the ceremo'ny of turning on the water.
At present 445 farms, embracing 300,000 acres, are ready, for irrigation ; hut later on a much larger area will be irrigated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 5
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63BIG IRRIGATION SCHEME Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 15 July 1912, Page 5
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