SOIL EROSION
THE SOUTH ISLAND
WHAT SURVEY REVEALS
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research (bMr. Sullivan) today made reference to an extensive 'soil erosion survey carried out by the Soil Survey division of his Department during the past six months. The survey covers an area of 8,500,000 acres of high runhold-country extending from Queenstown in the south to the head of the Awatere' River, Marlborough, in the north. The incidence and severity of accelerated soil erosion in this large area of country has been carefully surveyed. The survey has shown that of the total area covered soil is being lost by accelerated erosion on 4,600,000 acres. Included in the remainder is 2,100,000 acres of single slides in very elevated country which have probably always existed. This leaves only 1,800,000 acres which are free from erosion. "The results obtained from the survey," said the Minister, "and from other' similar surveys will be of the greatest value in the study of the soil erosion problem in New Zealand and in framing measures to prevent and control as. far as possible the accelerated soil erosion which is already making very serious inroads on. the Dominion's soil resources that are its greatest national asset."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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205SOIL EROSION Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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