MONEY FOR IRRIGATION.
■7 NEW APPBOPBL4TION METHOD. {BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL correspondent.] Wellington, Tuesday. Instead of, as in. former years, placing ; £100,000 upon the Appropriation Act for developmental purposes and water supply in arid districts/particularly in Central Otago, the Government to-day introduced a measure entitled the Irrigation and Water Supply Bill to deal with the subject. :'■; The Minister for Finance is empowered : to borrow at a rate of up to 4£ per cent, the sum of £100,000, which is to be paid . into a special account in the Public Works Fund for the purposes of promoting the. water supply and land settlement in arid districts.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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104MONEY FOR IRRIGATION. New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15390, 27 August 1913, Page 9
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