RUINING GOOD LAND

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 103, 25 January 1939, Page 9

RUINING GOOD LAND

"I am amazed that the dredging and mining of good land and desolating a whole countryside have not been strongly condemned by the public, through the newspapers or public meetings,” writes ■> West Coast (South Island) correspondent. “Land that has supported families for nearly 70 years and would continue to so do for all time, is being dredged for gold and ruined for production. It is a ma I'er for wonderment that authority Ix'en given to work this land for gold,

' '••■r-‘by permanently destroying its productiveness. Gold dredging is only a tem-mirary-industry at most, but in the very 1-ii'ed time that it exists, incalculable damage is. done to the na-t'on-il estate. Economists Of note ■’ ■<>’-m us that the chief wealth of a n -t : on is in its agricultural and pas- ■' t’.'il productions, The application of '■’hour to land, the natural media, is the "leans of the everlasting production of '■'l form of wealth that gives, and sus- ■ ins life and happiness.”