LIFE-GIVING WATER.
FERTILISING A DESERT. BIG DAM OPENED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Jan. 19, 11.50 a.m. CAIRO, Jan. 18. Tvhart-oum streets were befiagged and large crowds assemh’ed to meet Lord and Lady Lloyd when the High Commissioner formally opened Makwa-r dam, a gigantic engineering feat designed to fertilise several millions of acres of desert between the Blue Xi'e and the White Nile, to facilitate extensive cotton-growing.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 January 1926, Page 11
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