CENTRAL OTAGO.
—-r^t—' ; . IRRIGATION-PROPOSALS. (DT TELEGRAPH—SPECIU, COIJKESPONOENT.) ; r . ' " PUHPliln, TVlqrcli' 17. . The publication of Mr."J. L. Briice's report marks the Government's.- first.practical step in connection 1 with a scliemo fqf the tion of Central, Otago. As • the welfare q'f Dunedin is intimately bound up in the prosperity , and productiveness of this great stretch of back country, whose only hope, of coming into its own lies in successful irrigation, a. number of Dunedin pitizens were asked to. express' their views ' 'on 'the report. It was airiaziijß to find luny very few of tlieiji had even .'read 'the report. The- first gentleman approached has large interests in runs "in various parts of Central Otago. Re did not care to go into the matter in detail. "There isjniuch to be said for a schente," he said, "and much to bs said against it. Should, one be determined on, a commencement ought to be made in Ida Valley and Maniototo." This was brief with a yengeanco. Subsequent _ investigation proved It to be the most . concise summary possible of how the project is viewed from various standpoints. Almost everyone seen expressed the conviction ttyat Idfi Valley .was the place at which a start 'should bp ingfjb.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 9
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201CENTRAL OTAGO. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 9
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