THE PIAKO SWAMP.
r —— A BIG BECLAMATION. The Government has accomplishes the reclamation of the Hauraki Plain? formerly known as the Pia£o_ Swamp the greatest -work of the kind erej attempted in New Zealand. _ It is adding a new productive province to it About the middle 02 May an axe* of some 17.000 acres will be openec for public-" competition on the optiona svstem. tie sections varying in are? from 50 to 250 acres. total ares of the swamp is between iSO.OuO anc 90.000 acres." and the idea is thai some two or'three thousand _acres oj additional land shall oe maoe available for selection every six month; or so. To carry out the reclamation 370 miles of drains have been cut\ radiating from the main canal,vrmvl is about fifteen miles in lengtri. 40n wide, and of a depth sufficient to ca rr? a Priest man dredge. ihi-> main cana. will serve as the means of Gomnrumca.tion' for" the settlers on the block It has been a splendid work, splenctialy carried out.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9184, Issue 9184, 7 April 1910, Page 6
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171THE PIAKO SWAMP. Manawatu Standard, Volume 9184, Issue 9184, 7 April 1910, Page 6
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