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Irrigation Channel Team
Horse team making irrigation channel on Vance farm near Mewburn Park , Maffra about 1924. Part of the MacAlister Irrigation system. Water came from the Glenmaggie Dam. Built on the MacAlister River the dam was to supply sugar beet farmers in the Maffra area with water. Sugar beet was used to manufacture sugar. Once Federation occurred and Colonial boarder taxes were scrapped sugar was cheaper from Queensland sugar cane and the sugar beet industry was abandoned. The dam however still supplies farms in the area with irrigation water. Photo from Vance family via Joan Laws.
Irrigation Channel Team
Horse team making irrigation channel on Vance farm near Mewburn Park , Maffra about 1924. Part of the MacAlister Irrigation system. Water came from the Glenmaggie Dam. Built on the MacAlister River the dam was to supply sugar beet farmers in the Maffra area with water. Sugar beet was used to manufacture sugar. Once Federation occurred and Colonial boarder taxes were scrapped sugar was cheaper from Queensland sugar cane and the sugar beet industry was abandoned. The dam however still supplies farms in the area with irrigation water. Photo from Vance family via Joan Laws.