CANTERBURY PLAINS
DATA FOR IRRIGATION Irrigation surveys which have eithei been completed or are now being undertaken cover nearly all the major irrigable areas in Canterbury. Comprehensive data are being secured to embrace likely schemes on most of the areas in the plains which could be irrigated successfully. Schemes have already been started on two of these’ areas, to irrigate a total of nearly 20.C00 acres, and tnere seems to be a likelihood of such a rapid development of irrigation in Canterbury that- in five or six years the irrigated area could be at least 10C.CCO acres of some of the best light land in the piovince. Tho survey, considered by authorities to be the most exhaustive of its kind ever undertaken in the Dominion, already covers large areas from the river plain of tho Waitaki in the south to the plains below the. upper Ashley Itiver in tile north.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 13
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150CANTERBURY PLAINS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 13
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