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18 9 0. VICTORIA. liY PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PAHLIAMENT BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COM1IAND. RO:BT, S. :BRAI~, GOVER!i'l\IENT PRINTER, MELBOURME. No. 147.-[2s. 3d.}-7417. INDEX TO llEPORT. PAGE Preliminary 3 Legislation <luring past year 3 Legislation nrgently recptired 4 Riparian l{ights 4 Drainage requirements ••• 5 Gold-fields Reservoirs ... 5 'First Conference of Irrigationists .") Circulars to Trusts 5 Pnrity of Coli ban Water 6 Handbooks (i Appointments 6 National Works- Goulbnrn District 7 I.od(lon 8 Kow Swamp ... 8 Campnspe 9 Broken River 9 East Wimmera 9 West. lVimmera 9 \Verribee 9 Irrigation and Water Supply Trnsts 9 Increased value in land 12 Mildma Irrigation Colony 12 Irrigation in other Countries •.. 12 Proposcll Irrigation and lVater t:lnpply Trusts 13 Irrigation Competitions 15 Recommendation of the Judges ..• 16 \Vaterworks Trusts 16 Inspection of Trust 'Works 18 Local Governing Bodies Loan Acts 19 Victorian Water Supply Work;; 19 Colilmn Scheme 19 Geclong Scheme 20 Gold-fields Reservoir;; 20 Rainfall and River Gauging 21 Rainfall 21 Rh-er Gauging 21 Analyses of \Vater 21 Boring for Water 21 Conclusion 23 1\lAr OP VICTORIA, ~howing- 1Vatcrworks Tn1sts. Urban Di~tricts. Irrigation flllll 1Yater Supply Trns(.s, Towns supplied. National Works. APPI:OXUfAl'E COST OF REPORT. .t s. d. PrC'paro.tion-N'ot gh·en~ Printing {·l,OOO copi~s) .. 165 0 0 FOR THE YEAR EXDED 30TH JUNE, 1890. Victorian ·water Supply, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne, 1st September, 1890. Tile llonorable Alfred Deakin, J.liin'ister qf rVater Supply, '-}·c., <S·c. Sm, I have the honour to submit my Heport for the past twelve months, and have much pleasure in stating that the steady progress of important schemes of water ~upply :md irrigation alluded to by my predcce6sor in his last year\; Report is increasing in a ratio corresponding with the growth of educated.
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