BLUE NILE DAM.
GREAT WORK FINISHED. Ty Telegraph—Press Association— Copyngbt Reuters Telegrams. CAIRO, June 16. The great dam at Makwar, a few miles north of Senriar on the Blue Nile, has been opened. It cost £10.000,000. It is expected that the irrigation canals will be finished very shortly, enabling cotton-growing at Gezira to get into full swing.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 4
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