For the past 18 months a number of unemployed men have been working in Balgowhie Swamp, a huge area of rushes and raupo lying between Wanganui and the port of CastlcclifT. So far. 50 nervs has been drained, and by the spr’ng should be ready to be leased. Th's 50 acres is on a higher level than the greater part of the swamp, and ther l * is a fall of Homo 19 feet in about 25 chains. Most of the
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 218, 10 June 1933, Page 8
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