MAMMOTH DAM.
OPENED IN SOUTHERN INDIA. , (Received Wednesday, 5.5 p.m.) CALCUTTA, August 21. Costing 5$ millions sterling, the Mettur Dam over the Kaveri River, in Southern India, claimed to be the largest in the world, three times as long as the Assouan Dam over the Nile, was opened to-day by Sir George Stanley, Governor of Madras. The dam is to irrigate practically the whole of the Tanjore district and part of the Trichinopoly district.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 August 1934, Page 5
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