Irrigation Charges
Sir, —Mr Logan is correct in stating that a contract for £5O would rise to £3OO if the new irrigation charges are adopted. But he, like others, tells only half the story. The old contracts gave a cover of an acre-foot over half your land, while the new rates give an acre-foot over your whole farm. A farmer with his farm developed would use this amount of water and in a dry year considerably more. I am well aware of the costs involved but would remind Mr Logan that on the Ashbur-ton-Lyndhurst scheme we have had 18 years to spread this development. I am not one of those trying to have the taxpayer pay for the benefits I derive from irrigation.— Yours, etc., IRRIGATOR. June 18, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31092, 22 June 1966, Page 12
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