Bay County Council To Call Idle Lands Meeting

Northern Advocate, 10 March 1949, Page 4

Bay County Council To Call Idle Lands Meeting

KAWAKAWA, Thu. (Sp.)—Preliminary action on the Whangarei suggestion for utilisation of Northland s idle lands was taken yesterday by the Bay of Island County Council. The council followed the Whangarei County Council s suggestion to call a meeting of in this area likely to be interested, at which an active committee could be set up to study the position in detail, attend later conferences, etc.

Rnriips to bo aproached will be the of Kerikeii. Bav of Islands and Kaikohe ..dairy It was stated that a Government companies the Auckland Farmers’ department had begun developmental Freezing Company, RSA and HSA or- work on 500 acres of ironstone couneanisations Federated Farmers and tiy at Kapiro. .... , the Rehabilitation Department. For several years past agitation has , , . , been made from Bay of Islands and It will be suggested that each body Whangaroa f or state development of should send two delegates. i e ‘-waipapa wastelands.” council itself appointed its chairman g oon a£ter the end of the war, the (Cr H. T. Atkinson) and the Kerikeri Minister o£ Lands (Mr skinner) inriding member (Cr A. Riddell). formed the Whangaroa County CounThe meeting will be held in the cJI that it was panned to develop 3300 Kerikeri Recreation Hall on March acreg at Kap j ro 23.

TO SEE KAPIRO BLOCK It will be called for mid-morning and, should deliberations be concluded by lunch-time, those present will be asked to make an inspection of the Kapiro Block, at Waipapa. just north