EXPERIMENTAL WORK
Irrigation in Canterbury
Bv Telegraph.—Press Association
Christchurch, September 11
An indication that the irrigation work which the Public sVorks Department has decided to undertake in South Canterbury was to be regarded as experimental in the meantime was given by the Minister of Public sVorks. Hon. J. Kitchener, to a reporter to-night. The department recently decided to start with a scheme for irrigation of an area bet;weeij 5000 and 6000 acres at Redcllffe, near Glenavy, Mr. Kitchener said. He was not yet fully satisfied that irrigation had been proved sufficiently for its general application in Canterbury. He preferred to see some small scheme carried out before launching out on the larger proposal. The area chosen be considered ideal for the experiment, and it seemed to him wiser to allow such a scheme to function for a time and prove itself before the department decided to embark on the irrigation of any big area of the Canterbury Plains. The department would regard the South Canterbury scheme as a pioneering venture.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 297, 12 September 1934, Page 16
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170EXPERIMENTAL WORK Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 297, 12 September 1934, Page 16
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