CANTERBURY IRRIGATION
PUBLIC WORKS’ EXPERIMENT. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 11. An indication that the irrigation work which the Public Works Department has decided to undertake in South Canterbury was to be regarded as experimental in the meantime, was given by the Minister of Public Works (Mr Bitchener) to a reporter to-night. The Department recently decided to start with a scheme for irrigation of an area of between 5000 and 6000 acres at Redcliffs, near Glenavy. Mr Bitchener 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 a larger proposal. The area chosen he considered as 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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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 5
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