EXTRA EDITION DEVELOPMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 7

EXTRA EDITION DEVELOPMENT.

AUSTRALIAN SCHEME.

*3Y CABLE—PKESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT (Received April 28, 10.15 a.m ) ' n -, „ „ SYDNEY, April 28. Under the Government's country development plan it is understood the •first scheme adopted will apply to the Murray river lands, where 9 650 000 sicres, at present held' under gracing leases and carrying on an average a ..sheep to 80 acres, will be available. about 20. per cent, the whole of * this is considerad useable for whe^t ISSP lH a-yition the™ are some -590,000 acres which it is proposed to place under irrigation and divide into •rsmall blocks for_ intense cultivation. Three railways, involving 300 miles of lmes ; with three bridges across the Murray to link up with the Victorian lines, will be required to brino- the ■area under closer settlement rfo+f^ST-*^ S l6 Cabinet unofficially •state that the Commonwealth and Imperial Government approve, and will >-?I°k necessary money 'for She