public to the points raised by Mr. M'Kinney in his paper. We 

 had a splendid territory, but had allowed it to fall almost into dis- 

 sequently far behind Victoria in the matter of 

 d not think the locking of the Darling would 

 i navigation of the lower Murray. He took it 

 ver is locked water is kept in it throughout a 

 greater portion of the year, He thought that the locking of the 

 Darling would tend to keep the waters in the lower Darling and 

 the Murray. 



Mr. J. T. WiLSHiRE, M.R, in seconding the vote of thanks said he 

 fully endorsed Mr. M'Kinney's remarks with regard to the necessity 

 of legislation in the matter. He sincerely hoped that during the 

 next session of Parliament a Bill would be introduced by the 

 Government. 



Mr. P. N. Trebeck said the squatters in the Western District 

 had tried sending their sheep up to the mountains as suggested by 

 Judge Docker, but they invariably came back infected with fluke. 

 He therefore preferred Mr. M'Kinney's scheme of irrigation as a 

 more practical means of grappling with the difficulty. 



Mr. M'Kinney in reply said he was gratified at the corroboration 

 of his opinions by Judge Docker, whose experience of the western 

 part of the country probably even exceeded his own. With regard 

 to the question asked by Professor Rennie, he would not go so far as 

 to say that he thought that irrigation would put a stop altogether 

 to navigation, but he thought it would interfere with it to a con- 

 siderable extent, as the quantity of water to be taken would be so 

 great. In Victoria, however, people were quite reconciled to the 

 idea of navigation being seriously interfered with, believing that 

 much greater good would result from irrigation. 



Mr. J. Trevor Jones desired to explain that he meant that if 

 the Darling and the Macquarie were locked in the manner indicated 

 in the paper, that though the pumping would diminish the quantity 

 of water in the rivers, yet that the quantity conserved by the 

 locking would to a certain extent compensate for that taken away 

 by the pumping. 



The Chairman, Professor Liversidge, in thanking Mr. M'Kinney 

 on behalf of the meeting for his valuable paper hoped that the 

 public press would give that prominence to the subject which its 



Mr. M'I 

 Judge Dock 



■ briefly acknowledged the vote of t 



doubt, as stated by Mr. Trebeck, there was a danger of the sheep 

 contracting the fluke ; but if they were taken up to the mountains 

 during the summer time they were less likely to catch the disease. 

 He had always understood too, that sheep which were affected 

 with fluke were cured by being taken to tlie salt-bush country. 



