IRONSTONE LANDS
DEVELOPMENT PLAN AREA IN THE NORTH AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT [by telegraph—OWN- correspondent] KERIKERI, Monday Considerable interest is manifested in the district in development work which the Lands Department has started on the ironstone lands at Waipapa, north of Kerikeri. The Government hopes that it will be able to demonstrate that milking grasses can be maintained on the ironstone belt or alternately that it can be grassed in a manner suitable for the raising of fat cattle. There are thousands of acres in this hitherto comparatively neglected area, so that if operations now started by the department prove successful there should bo a productive future for this type of country. There are actually one or two instances in the district where rye and clover grasses have been successfully established. The department proposes to plough this season about 30 acres and to start the reconditioning of an area of 20 acres formerly grassed by the Department of Agriculture, but allowed to suffer neglect. These operations form part, it is understood, of a scheme to develop about 300 acres. On the success of the scheme, of which effective fertilisation and judicious stocking are an essential feature, the chances of expansion will depend.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23011, 12 April 1938, Page 12
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