SOIL EROSION
PRESERVATIGN OF VEGETABLES [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 23. The first meeting of the committee recently appointed to investigate, the vegetable aspects of soil erosion and land deterioration in New Zealand was held recently. The Minister in Charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr Sullivan) said to-day that the work of the committee was to report on the measures necessary for the preservation of vegetation, both native and introduced, so that the destruction of the soil cover, with con-, sequent erosion and land deterioration, could be avoided. At its first meeting the committee surveyed the incidence of erosion in a number of topographic units into which the North and South Islands had been divided. An interim report, Mr Sullivan added, would be available before the end of the year.
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Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 18
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135SOIL EROSION Evening Star, Issue 23123, 24 November 1938, Page 18
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