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Irrigation
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South Australia - Industries, Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture
A proposal for irrigation on the Adelaide plains is reported in the Southern Australian,
30 April 1844, page 2b; also see
26 July 1844, page 2d and
South Australian,
23 May 1845, page 2d,
Register,
17 October 1871, page 6f.
Information on irrigation in the colony is to be found in the Observer,
24 January 1857, page 6f,
18 April 1857, page 6d,
10 and 31 December 1859, pages 5d and 6g,
7 January 1860, page 6b,
22 September 1860, page 6c,
Farm & Garden,
11 October 1860, page 1,
13 December 1860, page 98,
Register,
18 and 22 July 1861, pages 2c and 2f, 25,
14 January 1867, page 2b,
28 May 1870, pages 6b-c and 5c,
1 and 8 June 1870, pages 5d and 3e,
13 July 1871, page 5a,
21 and 31 August 1871, pages 6c and 3e,
Observer,
19 July 1873, pages 9a-12c-13e,
9 and 30 August 1873, pages 10a and 10a-13b,
6 September 1873, page 11d,
1 July 1882, page 24c.
"Water Supply and Irrigation" is in the Chronicle,
30 September 1871, page 12b.
"Water Supply for Irrigation" is in the Register,
12 January 1883, page 4g.
"An Irrigation Scheme" is in the Register,
29 and 30 November 1882, pages 6b and 6c.
A lecture by Mr F.E.H.W. Krichauff is reproduced in the Observer,
10 March 1883, page 10e.
"Irrigation for SA" is in the Register,
10 March 1883, page 4f.
"The Practicability of Irrigation in the North of SA" is in the Observer,
26 September 1885, page 9c.
Also see Advertiser,
21 February 1884, page 2d (supp.),
20 July 1885, page 4e,
14 November 1885, page 4d,
20 January 1886, page 5f,
Register,
5 and 6 September 1884, pages 4f and 6d,
Observer,
17 January 1885, page 10b,
18 July 1885, page 9b,
Register,
15 July 1885, pages 4d-7a,
8, 10, 15, 22 and 24 February 1887, pages 4e, 7h, 6c, 4h and 4h,
19 May 1887, page 4e,
21 July 1887, page 4e,
Advertiser,
1 October 1888, pages 3g-6c.
"Irrigation on the Adelaide Plains" is in the Observer,
30 January 1886, page 12e,
"Irrigation in SA" on
21 May 1892, page 31a.
"Irrigation from the Murray" is in the Register,
13 November 1885, page 6f,
Chronicle,
4 June 1887, page 7a.
"Irrigation for South Australia" is in the Chronicle,
18 and 25 August 1888, pages 5b and 5a.
"Proposed Irrigation in South-East" is in the Observer,
16 March 1889, page 13b.
"The New Irrigation" is in the Register,
23 February 1892, page 4g,
"Murray Irrigation Colonies" on
23 February 1892, page 7a.
"Irrigation in SA" is in the Register,
4 June 1892, page 6d.
"The Irrigation Colonies" is in the Advertiser,
25 October 1892, page 6a; also see
16 November 1892, page 4d,
7 May 1896, page 4f and
Register,
22 November 1902, page 6e ("Is Irrigation Impossible"),
28 January 1903, page 6g,
13 April 1905, page 4d-e,
11 September 1905, page 7c,
14 November 1912, page 12e and
Place Names - Morgan and
Place Names - Murray, River.
"Canalisation and Irrigation" is in the Advertiser,
17 March 1888, page 6d,
"Irrigation for South Australia" on
13 August 1888, page 7a.
"Irrigation and Settlement" is in the Register,
25 February 1889, page 4e.
"The Murray Irrigation Colonies" is in the Register,
1 February 1892, page 4f.
"Waterworks and Irrigation" is in the Register,
28 March 1894, pages 4e-7a.
"Water as a Key to the Desert" is in the Register,
5 February 1907, page 4b,
"Scheme to Make the Desert Arable" in The Mail,
12 and 19 January 1929, pages 2f and 31.
"Irrigation in the Upper North" is in the Chronicle,
17 February 1906, pages 8c-39c.
"Scientific Irrigation" is in the Advertiser,
5 May 1908, page 6c,
"Irrigation in the North" on
17 February 1911, page 8h.
An obituary of Ebenezer Pitt, "a veteran fruitgrower", is in the Express,
30 September 1913, page 4g.
"The Irrigation Movement" is in the Register,
20 April 1909, page 4c.
Biographical details of E.J. Field and S.J. McIntosh are in the Register,
22 July 1910, page 4f,
Observer,
7 March 1923, page 43a,
Register,
9 April 1926, page 8h.
"Irrigation and Reclamation" is in the Observer,
6 December 1913, page 12a,
13 November 1920, page 43.
"Irrigation Pioneers - The Great Chaffey Scheme" is in the Advertiser,
25 July 1921, page 8c.
"Irrigation Activities" is in the Observer,
18 February 1922, page 4a,
"The Great Oasis - Murray Valley Settlement" on
27 January 1923, page 42.
"Kingsland - What the Company Proposes" is in The Mail,
7 April 1923, page 7a,
"The Kingsland Irrigation Scheme" is in the Register,
2 May 1923, page 9e,
Advertiser,
6 and 28 March 1924, pages 12d and 18b.
"Colorful Career of Daniel Kingsland" in The Mail,
3 January 1925, page 1a.
"Irrigation in South Australia - Some Problems Discussed" is in the Observer,
27 December 1924, page 6a,
3 January 1925, page 6b,
"Murray Irrigation - Some Problems Discussed" on
10 January 1925, page 6a.
"Big Irrigation Losses - Three Areas to be Abandoned" is in the Advertiser,
29 October 1925, page 19.
Biographical details of H.G. Tolley, irrigation commissioner, are in the Observer,
28 August 1926, page 46c and
of S. Kellett on
30 April 1927, page 30b.
"Fifty Years of SA Irrigation" is in The News,
5 February 1937, page 4f.
