PREVENTING EROSION
MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE. .. * (Per Press Association!) WELLINGTON, November 23. The first meeting of the committee recently appointed to investigate vegetable aspects of soil erosion and land deterioration in New Zealand was held recently. The Minister in charge or the Department of Scien'tic and Industrial Research (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) said to-day that the work of the committee was to report oil measures necessary for'-the preservation of vegetation, both native and introduced, so that destruction of the soil cover, with consequent erosion and land deterioration, could he avoided. At its first meeting the committee had surveyed the incidence of erosion in the topographic units into which the North and South Islands had been divided. An interim report would bo available before the end of the year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 38, 24 November 1938, Page 5
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