DETERIORATED LANDS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 9

DETERIORATED LANDS

MINISTER FAW)RS TREE PLANTING. (Por Press Association.) WHANGAREI, last night. Tlie Minister of Agriculture. Mr. 0. J. Hawken, speaking at. the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce dinner to-night, referred to deteriorated lands, and said it would ho better if such lands were planted in trees. 71c was in favor of seeing all land in the Dominion producing something, and advocated bringing swamp lands to a state of productivity. If the Government could help in any way to obtain the, desired object, lie, as Minister of Agriculture Mould use his best endeavors on that behalf.

Mr. Hawken referred to the high cost of farming, and said that he would dq his best to reduce it. He realised, as a farmer, what the men on the land were lin acainst, and would endeavor to heln the genuine trier. Mr. Hawken went on to tell those present of bis own experiences, and said that be was convinced that so far as sheen ami fat lambs were concerned the southern rmrrs of New Zealand would have to l"ok to their laurels, otherwise the "North would soon outstrin them in ivsneet to prime mutton. He paid a high tfibnte to the North penernllv and how it bad progressed during th& last few rears. He anficinated that in the near future it would with the most flourishing districts in the Dominion.