MAYFIELD-HINDS
£322,000 IRRIGATION SCHEME AUTHORISED U\ telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, November 28. An expenditure of £322,000 is Involved in the new Irirgation scheme which the Government proposes to start in the Mayfield-Hinds area in Mid-Canter-bury according to an announcement made to-day by the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple. “Construction work has .now been authorised on the Mayfield-Hinds irrigation scheme situated in Ashburton County,” said the Minister. “This scheme covers a large area of Canterbury plains lying between the Rangitata and Hinds rivers and extending from Mayfield near the foothills to Lowcliffs near the sea. The area of land commanded by the scheme is 108,000 acres, and it is portion of the 460,000 acres of land which will be served by the Rangitata diversion race authorised about a year ago. The Rangitata diversion race, already under construction, will divert water from the Rangitata river and will be the source of supply for five large projected schemes in the Ashburton County. The Mayfield-Hinds irrigation scheme is tne second of these schemes to be authorised, the first section being the Ashburton-Lyndhurst scheme on which work is proceeding.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20896, 27 November 1937, Page 8
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