OPENING OF THE SUKKUR DAM.—Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy of India, opened the Lloyd Barrage and Canals—the world’s largest irrigation scheme—on January 13. This mighty barrage, across the Indus, is a mile long with sixty-six spans, each 60ft, separated by fifty-eight piers. The scheme will allow 5,000,000 acres of the Sind desert to be irrigated annually.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)
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55OPENING OF THE SUKKUR DAM.—Lord Willingdon, the Viceroy of India, opened the Lloyd Barrage and Canals—the world’s largest irrigation scheme—on January 13. This mighty barrage, across the Indus, is a mile long with sixty-six spans, each 60ft, separated by fifty-eight piers. The scheme will allow 5,000,000 acres of the Sind desert to be irrigated annually. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)
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