An Irrigation Scheme
Dear Sir, —All economists are agreed that the unemployed should be given employment on productive work, not on mere “ grass chopping.”
This season Canterbury has experienced a drought, and as a consequence our crops will not fetch the price we hoped for earlier in the year. Would not it be possible to put the unemployed on to a great irrigation scheme that would eventually bring prosperity to us all? The present little water races are wholly insufficient, but we have the water (in the Waimakariri) and we have the men, and it looks as if our present source of danger could be turned into a source of wealth.
This, surely, would be a great productive work, and our Canterbury plains would be turned into as good a crop and sheep growing area as there is in the world. Would it be possible to get an engineer’s advice on the scheme?—l am, etc, FERTILE.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 8
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156An Irrigation Scheme Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 8
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