HIGH-COUNTRY GRAZING
Questions Asked By Mr George
(From Our Own Reporter)
WELLINGTON. June 24
A question on the alleged misuse of high-country graznng was asked the Minister of Lands (Mr Skinner) by Mr’ J. G. George (Opposition, Central Otago) this afternoon.
Mr George asked Mr Skinner whether his attention had been drawn to a recent press statement in which Mr J D. Raeside, of the Soil Bureau, was reported as telling the last science congress that New Zealand’s 7.5 million acres of “high-altitude grasslands" were being destroyed by deliberate misuse and should be withdrawn from pastoral use. Mr George asked the Minister to inform the House:
1 If it was correct that this large area was being deliberately misused?
2. If it was being destroyed? 3. Was it the intention of the Government to withdraw this large area from pastoral use?
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29240, 25 June 1960, Page 14
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