FLOODED LANDS
FENCING OF NEWLY-SOWN AREAS APPLICATION TO TREASURY (Per United Press Association) HASTINGS, May 12. The authority of the Treasury Department will be sought by the Hawke’s Bay Flood Relief Committee for the immediate purchase of fencing materials. These materials will be used to construct fences round the newly-sown areas which were buried deep in silt in the Anzac Day floods. This decision was reached at a meeting of the Flood Relief Committee today, over which the instructor to the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture (Mr J. W. Palmer) presided. The object of the fences is to stop stock from straying over the newly-sown areas. In an interview this evening the fields superintendent to the Department of Agriculture (Mr J. A. Hamblyn) said that there were 1700 to 1800 acres of land silted in the Esk Valley. There was also other land silted on the east coast, which would bring the total area to about 3000 acres. The silt that had been left in the Esk Valley was on the coarse side, but once pasture obtained a hold the content would rapidly improve the quality of the soil in those areas.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23499, 13 May 1938, Page 12
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