IRRIGATION IN AUSTRALIA
NEW ZEALAND ENGINEER’S SURVEY. MUCH VALUABLE LAND MADE AVAILABLE. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. "An investigation into irrigation works, road making and aerodrome construction in Australia was recently carried out by Mr J. Wood, Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department, who arrived back today by the Wanganella from Sydney. He devoted a great deal of -attention to irrigation work in Victoria. One of the interesting engineering works he inspected is the construction of barrages across the five mouths of the River Murray, with the object of preventing salte water from working up the river and ruining pasture land. The work had been in progress for two years and is expected to take an- ■ other two to complete. Mr Wood says a proposal is under way to irrigate from the River Murray another million acres, about 60 per cent in New South Wales and 40 per cent in Victoria. Some of this land is to be used for fruit growing, but a good deal will be available as pasture. Australian aerodromes, Mr Wood stated, were ahead of New Zealand aerodromes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 8
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