SHORT SIGHTED POLICY

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 317, 22 August 1924, Page 8

SHORT SIGHTED POLICY

FELLING BUSH IN THE BACK COUNTRY. (Per Press Association!. Nelson, Aug. 21. A paper dealing with the denudation of the forest on the higher levels as affecting river encroachments and other engineering problems was rend at the Surveyors’ Conference by M>' ,J. C. M.enzies. He doubted if the revenue derived for the next 10d years from the sale or lease of land in. the. sources of rivers in Nelson would pay I’ok the protective work already done and which would have to be done in the next ten years. JR was a serious tiling if the. hack country. which in many eases was worth very little per acre, was to be settled at the cost of more valuable low-lyinji areas. Mr Sladden (New Plymouth) said a mistake had been made in th« past in falling bush in the high country. All the beds of streams R Taranaki had risen considerably, R uiie instance as much as 12 feet.