MURRAY RIVER LANDS.
FLANS FOR SETTLEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright j Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association. SYDNEY, May 18. Cabinet lias called the district enginecr at Wentworth to Sydney to ad vise on the settling of the Murray River lauds, between \loama and the South border. He states that there are over 400,(XX) acres of irrigable land close to the river, on whih 20 000 men could he settled : eventually. For small cultivators i -3,000 holdings could be provided, on | thy* basis of che Mildura settlement. I bis settlement. on the New South j Wales Stde. would carry 180,000 people
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 4
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