MURRAY WATERS QUESTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 20 January 1905, Page 5

MURRAY WATERS QUESTION.

COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

SAFEGUARDING SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY, January 19. The Irrigation Committee "has exhaustively discussed the Murray waters question, including the report of the Lesal Committee. This report, after dealing with the e'iiims of the various States, ha recommi-niied that it is desirable to huve the law so shaped that whilst no undue preference shall be given to upper or lower riparian proprietors, due encouragement should be given to settlement where water was available and irrigation practicable.

Thu conference subsequently adopted resolutions to the effect that in any scheme of conservation of water for irrigation, provision should be made for safeguarding the interests of downBtreani occupants, and that even the cost of the construction of works for the maintenance of navigation in South Australia should be shared by New South and Victoria. (Received 9.59 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Tne Irrigation Conference has ended. It was resolved to report to the Interstate Commission, which provided for the ipportionment of the Murray waters ™<mg the three interested States, that tms should be regarded as the maximum concessions that New South Wales should nake. It was affirmed that all waters where practicable should be used for promotion, instead of for maintaining spasmodic navigation. ( , tTh , e "lower riparian proprietors" and "c 'down-stream occupants" are. of mm, in South Australia, the colony opposing irrigation in the upper reaches."]