CENTRAL OTAGO VISIT
AGRICULTURAL EXPERT VIEWS ON SOIL EROSION A visit to Central Otago districts to study conditions regarding soil erosion and agriculture generally is planned later this week by Professor G. W. Robinson, Sc.D., F.R.S., who is professor of agriculture chemistry at the University College of Bangor, North Wales. Professor Robinson, who is visiting Dunedin at present, was leader of the British delegation to the Pacific Science Congress, and until recently director of the Soil Survey of England and Wales. Professor Robinson said he considered that soil erosion in New Zealand was not as serious a problem as many people thought. It was certainly not as bad as in Eastern United States. He had not, however, seen the whole of New Zealand, and his remarks were restricted to the small areas he had visited. Professor Robinson considered that the agricultural potential in New Zealand was as high as in any country he had been in.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27018, 1 March 1949, Page 4
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