IRRIGATION By WAITAKI
Nine-mile Strip Planned A proposal has been prepared for irrigating land on the south bank of the Waitaki. To be known as the Upper Waitaki Irrigation Scheme, the area is a narrow belt of nine miles between Kurow and Duntroon. The scheme is one of a backlog of schemes which have been awaiting investigation. “The agricultural reports predict an increase in annual production of £lO an irrigated acre, but since the holders of irrigable land under the scheme occupy more than 11,000 acres the effect of irrigation would reach well beyond the area supplies.” says a Ministry of Works newsletter. On preliminary assessment the cost to farmers will be about 36s an irrigable acre each year. The newsletter says that survey work on 42,500 acres of the proposed Maniototo Irrigation Scheme 'on a small Otago Central plain) i* almost complete.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28972, 13 August 1959, Page 6
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