EROSION PROBLEM
A research and demonstration station is to be established in the tussock country of the South Island, stated a letter received from the chairman of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council (Mr W. L. Newnham) and read at a meeting of the South Canterbury Catchment Board. The question was fully discussed at a recent meeting of the council, and investigations were proceeding, said Mr Newnham. Up to the present time the main difficulty had been the location of a suitable property, but every effort was being made to expedite the matter. The need for a high-country research station was emphasised at the last meeting of the board, and a report giving the views of the board on the matter was sent to the council, recommending the establishment of a station as soon as possible, and impressing upon the council the difficulty under which the board worked in being required to rate heavily for river control on the plains, while adequate investigation of the causes and treatment of erosion on the hills was not being undertaken.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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178EROSION PROBLEM Otago Daily Times, Issue 26033, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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