SCRUB LAND.
"SHOULD BURNING BE FORBIDDEN ? - .1 often have to 'listen : to, Crown tenants' ' complaints; (writes . our travelling 'correspondent), but I- do think * thero , is'one 1 regulation whicli should be brought into-opera-tion :in' respect ,of ;scrub lands', and :that' is that no tenant should bo .allowisil to bfirn standing - is burned the liind • ,r a T e '? i- r ) then, in a vrorso con□ition 'than when firat' taken' up. As .very : few , t-he original selectors remain on their sections, but seir out genera Ily , to' a neighthe ; section v,has; been almost/ruined for .tho-next man by tho foolish practice of ■ ouriung standing scrub by the former, holder. To see beautiful .land, covcred.' by a dense growth of 20 to '30, foot, high/ of manuka, ruined by this .reprehensible custom makes one think that no ;Crown tenant should bo allowed to-burn-off, -particularly when, secitions adjoimng ,of ; tho samo quality originally .which liaye, been-,properly foiled -and; sown, aro. carrying .splendid, grassland two sheep to clio acre. • - ~
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 3
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163SCRUB LAND. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 158, 28 March 1908, Page 3
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