IRRIGATION IN EGYPT.
GREAT BRITISH SCHEME. HUGE DAM OPENED. (Received 12.30 p.m.) CAIRO, January 18. . The streets of Khartoum were beflagged, and large crowds assembled to meet Lord and Lady Lloyd, when the High Commissioner formally opened the Makwar dam, a gigantic engineering feat designed to fertilise several million acres of desert between the Blue Xile and the White Nile, to facilitate extensive cotton growing.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 7
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