ERODED AREAS
MAPPING FROM THE AIR PROFESSOR'S ADVICE "I have never seen erosion so well defined as I did during an air journey between Wellington and New Plymouth this week," said Professor C. J. F. Skottsberg, director of the Botanical Gardens in Gothenburg, Sweden, in an interview in Auckland. He commended to the notice of the Government the suggestion that many tracts which were clearly bad should be mapped from the air so that appropriate steps could be taken to reafforest the areas. As it was the professor's first trip by air in the North Island, he said he found it difficult to define the sectors concerned, but they were quite obvious to the naked eye. In several places, he said, he observed a series of eroded areas comparatively close together, and it would not be long before they were joined. Professor Skottsberg said he noticed similar manifestations in differenet parts of the South Island, but the degree of erosion did not appear to be as bad as that in the North Island.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19793, 22 November 1938, Page 16
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