MODERN MACHINERY.
CLEARING WASTE LAND
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 23
Land-clearing, drainage and cultivation by Diesel-powered machinery and implements specially designed for such purpose will be demonstrated near Westport on Tuesday in the presence of representatives of the Government. The demonstration will be opened by the Minister of Labour (lion. P. C. ‘Webb), who referred in an interview this evening to the important influence it was likely to have on the land development policy of the future. The machines to be used include trecdozers, angledozers, _ bulldozers, ditching and draining implements, rooters, tractors and discers. The demonstration, said Mr Vebb, would take place on a specially selectod area of 20 acres wliioli, in its present condition, would provide a series of operations from clearing virgin bush, and the removal of tree stumps and timber which had previously been felled, to clearing blackberry and rushes, draining wet.and swamp areas, mole draining, vertical draining, rootiiKT out hidden timber and roots, discing and levelling. The machinery assembled for the demonstration was considered, by the owners of flic plant to be the largest collection of equipment of its kind over brought together for this purpose in the Southern Hemisphere. Trial work had already been done, and the amazing rapidity with which rough country had been brought into use was almost unbelievable. . “The Government is hopeful, said Air Webb, “that the demonstration will show that the soundest and most practical land policy that can be pursued will be in utilising this highpowered machinery to the fullest extent in clearing the thousands of acres of swamps and ghost forests adjacent to our railways and highways. This demonstration is of such importance that I will be delighted if farmers’ unions and members of Parliament, specially those representing country districts, can find it convenient to journey to Westport to see his work being performed.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 7
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306MODERN MACHINERY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 97, 24 March 1939, Page 7
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