PLANNING OFFICERS
Mountain Lands Institute
Mr J. A. Hayward, of the soil conservation staff of the Otago Catchment Board, has been appointed planning officer to the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute.
Mr Hayward, who is 26, graduated bachelor of agricultural science from Lincoln College in 1961, taking the soil conservation option in the fourth year of his degree course. For the last three j ears and a half he has been stationed at Alexandra, where he has been mapping land inventory and capability and producing and servicing conservation plans on farms and runs. He has also been interested in field trials on the effects of grazing and burning on soil conservation. In his work with the institute Mr Hayward will be concerned with the collection and co-ordination of all the available information on catchments under study for the preparation of recommendations bn land use. He will, with other members of the staff, participate in surveys to obtain information not otherwise available, and will prepare material for presentation to the committee of management and for publication.
It is expected that Mr Hayward will take up his new duties in October.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30482, 2 July 1964, Page 18
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