"FAIRLY EXPENSIVE."
DOMINION DRAINAGE SCHEMES HOPES NOT REALISED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON K, this day. . • The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. G. W. Forbes, paid a brief visit to Palmerston North last .evening, and met a deputation from the Makerua Drainage Board, which requested a £ for £ subsidy on the labour costs of cutting a channel providing , a key to the drainage system of a valuable area. The expenditure contemplated ik £2700 and the subsidy sought is £1200.
The Minister' received the/deputation favourably, and undertook to go, into the matter early* The Government experiments in draining- in New Zealand, he said, had been fairly expensive. 'I don't say there will never be any good results," he added, "but. the hopes at first held out, have not materialised. % It is. refreshing to meet a scheme where the settlers themselves have.shouldered the burden." l
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 280, 26 November 1929, Page 8
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