LAND DRAINAGE
[Per United Press Association,] WELLINGTON, April 15. The Hon. D. H. Guthrie stated to-day that th total expenditure for the year on land drainage was £205,000. The operations in the war years were hampered by a depleted staff and the difficulty of obtaining material, but no serious deterioration was allowed to take place. The conditions are now improved. Mr P. B.‘ Ihompson, chief drainage engineer, is to lerve in May for a tour-of the United States and Canada to inspect works there and to make inquiries re up-to-date machinery. New works to be undertaken are the Hikurangi area, north of Auckland (20,000 acres), and 60,000 acres at Seaward Moss, near Invercargid, also a preliminary suiwev of an area in South Westland. Altogether the diainage of over 550,000 acres k in hand.
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Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 6
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133LAND DRAINAGE Evening Star, Issue 17327, 15 April 1920, Page 6
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