SCIENTIFIC WAY
LAND DEVELOPMENT AVAITOMO COUNTY SCHEME (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, This Day. That the Government has entered upon a scheme of land settlement based on scientific lines, and that in furtherance of which the latest and most modern equipment will bo used, was indicated by the Hon. H. Atmore, Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, at Takaka. ''I have given authority," said the Minister, "for an aerial survey to be carried out immediately of an area of 108 square miles in the Mairoa and Kopaki districts, situated in the Waitomo County. Data that formerly would have taken many months to collect will be thus made available to geologists in as many days. I have also arranged with the Cawthron Institute for Mr. T. Kigg, the soil analyst, to proceed to that area forthwith for the purpose of preparing a soil survey map. It will thus be seen that future settlers on this area will be fortified with the most up-to-date scientific knowledge available for the successful farming of their sections. "To my mind, this is the way the problem of settling our undeveloped lands should be tackled, for thy thousands of pounds that would otherwise be spent in experiment by the farmers will bo saved, and it will not be a case of the selector plodding on in tho hope that the property might bo profitable to the next generation."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 13
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231SCIENTIFIC WAY Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 13
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