‘Great debate on Rakaia’
Parliamentary reporter Irrigation offered the best chance to generate new wealth in the North Canterbury region, Miss Ruth Richardson (Nat., Selwyn) told Parliament during her speech in the Address-in-Reply debate. There would rage in the Canterbury region, for the next year or so, a great debate over the Rakaia River, she said. The Rakaia had the highest mean flow of any river in Canterbury. Some 200,000 ha of land could be irrigated, which represented 40 per cent of all irrigable land in New Zealand. Over recent weeks the North Canterbury Catchment Board had produced a superb report giving a very good basis for the debate, Miss Richardson said. It was a very. balanced report that weighed the contribdfcn of consuming and non-Mhsuming uses.
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Press, 26 April 1983, Page 39
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