EXPANSION OF CITIES
Zoning Market Gardens Urged (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 6. If the statisticians were correct in their forecast. New Zealand would have a population of 5.000.000 by the year 2000, and towns and cities would occupy double the area they do today, the DirectorGeneral of Agriculture (Mr D. N. R. Webb) told the annual conference of the Vegetable and Produce Growers’ Federation today. “That means if we are to maintain our standard of living and our standard of health, we will require to double our vegetable production and double the area we produce it from,” said Mr Webb.
The present scene in the industry was not at all satisfactory. The most fertile lands were swallowed up in housing settlements and taken out of production for all time. A great bulk of the area was under bitumen roads and footpaths, lawns and flower gardens. An excellent example of this trend was the Hutt Valley. The answer to the problem of best quality soils under urban development, he suggested. must be in the zoning now of areas best suited for market gardens so that they would be reserved for the benefit’of future generations.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29842, 7 June 1962, Page 9
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