IRRIGATION
HUGE AUSTRALIAN WEIR. SYDNEY, Friday. The immense Hume weir, near the border of New South Wales and Victoria, will be completed at the end of next month. It will have a capacity of 1,250,000 acre feet when full. Victoria will be entitled to use half the water impounded for irrigation, while at least a million acres of land on the New South Wales side will be irrigated. The Riverina and Victorian pastoral wheat areas will be safeguarded against droughts. Upwards of fifteen years has been occupied in the construction of the works. The total cost of the weir is £5,500,000.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 5 May 1934, Page 5
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