‘No fire permits’
Farmers who burn tussock country without a permit show a “regettable lack of knowledge” of the damage caused by fire, according to the North Canterbury Catchment Board’s chief soil conservator, (Mr R. D. Dick). In his report to the soil conservation committee, he said that three land occupiers in North Canterbury had had fires without permits, in the last month. The fires were at Esk Head, Mount Noble, and the Lakes runs.
Letters had also been sent
to land occupiers of the Mount Lawry property, where 400 ha were burnt without a permit, and the McDonald Downs, where more than 150 ha had been burnt, said Mr Dick.
The proper use of fire on tussock country was to help improve production and prevent, or reduce, erosion, he said.
This needed self-educa-tion, with the assistance of catchment boards, to bring about more efficient longterm use of class VI tussock grassland country, said Mr Dick.
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