HURUNUI LAKES
Sir, —It is hard to believe that for the sake of a little scenery the Progress League is deliberately trying to reduce production and add to the present difficulties of back-country management. There are few men with the pluck and tenacity necessary to take up these difficult blocks of Crown lease, and with constant hindrance and pin-pricking by ignorant city bodies Ihere is always the danger of the lessee throwing it up in disgust. Let me remind the league that 500,000 acres behind Hanmer, which once carried 80.000 sheep, is now abandoned. Few realise what disturbance of stock means. A mob of Merinos grazing in an area, rattled by a stranger, may not return for two days or more, and cattle, suddenly disturbed, will travel long distances and not settle and feed again all day. The league apparently expects the Crown casually to break leases and repudiate agreements.— Yours, etc., ~ , BACK COUNTRY. March 12. 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27916, 13 March 1956, Page 7
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