A GREAT SCHEME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11372, 3 September 1908, Page 2

A GREAT SCHEME.

The Victorian, Government has hadl in mind for some time a great scheme of irrigation h^adworks which was to put in the shade not only all works previously attempted l in Victoria, but the great headworks of the world. It was to be larger than the great Assouan dam on the -Nile, much larger than the Barrenjack scheme now under construction in.- New South Wales. The scheme is to dam back the Goulburn. above Selmour at a place called Trawool. The bank was to have cost £1,250,000, and the water was to have been thrown back 30 miles. Some 25,000 acres -of land wero to be covered, the township of Yea was to have been completely blotted out, and the township of< Cathkin wouldi havo had the water lapping aro.und its outskirts. The residents of Yea did not like the idea of their picturesque little town disappearing, and they raised a great outcry. But the fact that it was to go paralysed the real "estate industry in the district, and the residents had already begun to send in their claims for Compensation. The heavy - expenditure which faced l the Government Ims given it pause,' and now it is announced that the- Trawool site has not been definitely fixed , upon . Investi - gations are being conducted both above andl below Trawool to see whether a site cannot be, discovered which will involve the country in less expense.