FARM LANDS LOST
WEST COAST DREDGES - borough COUNCIL PROTESTS REPLACEMENT OF TAILINGS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] GREYMOUTH. Friday . A protest against the destruction of farm lands by gold dredges on the West Coast was made at the monthly meeting of the Greymouth .Borough Council. The council decided to bring the matter to the attention of the Government, and to ask that bulldozers be made available to replacp dredge tailings so that the land might be put to some use. V Mr. H. Herring said that the West Coast depended on three primary industries, coalmining, goldmining andtimber milling. All three industries were working on wasting capital, and thought must be given , to*the future. Mechanical means were. at hand ai Westport, and the Government should be asked to make machinery, such.ai bulldozers, available to put barf valuable farm land, which was nw being dug by gold dredges On the Wesl Coast. " *
"It is a crying shame tbat tfyes'p farming lands on the West Coast should be converted into wastes," said Mr. F. F. Boustridge. "The time has arrived when any dredges about to be biiilt should be compelled to lay out the tailings flat, and to deposit the soil on top."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 12
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