DETERIORATION OF HIGH-COUNTRY
♦ INVESTIGATION SOUGHT [From Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, July 26. The deterioration of some highcountry pastoral areas was mentioned in a question of which Mr T. D. Burnett (National, Temuka) gave notice in the House of Representatives this afternoon that he would ask the Minister for Lands (the Hon. F. Langstone). . . Mr Burnett's question was: That, seeing the Crown possesses some 14,000,000 acres in the South Island back-country, let in pastoral and smaller grazing run leases, and that profound and marked deterioration has taken place in such country, will the Minister have an investigation made by two practical high-country sheepmen, a member of the Land Board, and a specialist from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research?” Mr Burnett said that in the Mackenzie Country alone there were 50,000 fewer sheep carried than there were 40 years ago. Other Parliamentary news is printed on Page 5.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 12
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