IRRIGATION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I read an article in the ‘ Evening Star 1 on irrigation showing that things are not right under Government control. I am not in debt to the department for rents of any kind, but consider I have a just grievance. I have a section of five acres which 1 should get enough water to irrigate, but have been trying since October 6, 1932, till the present, twenty-seven days, to irrigate, and the water has only covered a quarter of an acre. The race, a Government one, is two-thirds silted up, and the department here will not clear it. I have complained both locally and to Wellington, but can got no relief, so in desperation have appealed to the Minister to caned the license. Tho engineers, three in number, are receiving largo salaries, also the raccman is well paid, and they have every convenience as to cars, etc., but will do nothing. This is the service which has New Zealand by the throat. There are millions of gallons of water going to the sea every day,—l am( etc., Pkusecutiox. ivlyde, November 3.
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Evening Star, Issue 21253, 7 November 1932, Page 11
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186IRRIGATION. Evening Star, Issue 21253, 7 November 1932, Page 11
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