! Mr T G. Beck, assistant engineer, Public Works Department, in his address to the Canterbury Progress T eaeue last night, said that the total area irrigated in thewoddwas «;nn nflO 000 acres; in Europe 14 000 000; in Asia 141,000,000; China e;n nno 000 India 66,000,000; Japan fn'oOOOO ' Iraq 6,000.000; Java o'500'ooo'; in Africa 10,000,000; Mad'asascar 1,500,000, the .topography of the island being similar to that nf the Canterbury plains; in North America 27,OOofoOO; in Oceania 1 250,000 (Hawaii, gToOoT New Zealand approximately 60,000). The growth of irrigation in the tad SSSed from 100,000,000 200,000,000 acres smce 1900 SffiTuthl that they w e r. right.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 7
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