GORSE IN RAKAIA RIVERBED
I Catchment Board’s : Interest ■ t “The board has spent several hundred pounds in bulldozing a fire break and we do not want this ■ expensive break to become overgrown and a rabbit menace,” said : the chairman. Mr R. M. D. John-! son. reporting to the North Canterbury Catchment Board yesterday: . for the board’s soil conservation » and reserves committee, when it I ?: was decided to approach the; [■Lands Department about burning! gorse in the Rakaia riverbed ad- 1 .■joining the board’s reserves. J Seconding the proposal to ap-l ..proacb the department, the Com- ; '[missioner of Crown Lands (Mr T. ; [W. Preston - * said that the depart-. ; ment would do what was reason- [ able. Last year it had got a fright i when a four-figure sum had been ; mentioned. The department had ; spent a good deal on the fire break ■ and on rabbiting. 1 An officer of the board interjected to say that the cost of the .break had been met on a 50-50 j basis. •- I,
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28268, 4 May 1957, Page 12
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