WARNING REGARDING AFFORESTATION

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 66, 22 March 1929, Page 5

WARNING REGARDING AFFORESTATION

GOOD FiWMIHG LAND SHOULD HOT BE USED. Press Association— Copyright. HAMILTON, This Day. The • Minister of Lands, speaking at Putaruru yesterday, said thai! nrhlle he did not wish to discourage afforestation, it should be confined to lands unsuitable for farming. He recognised that a freeholder had lihert'y to deal with his land, but if tree-planting was carried on to such an extent that good farming land was being lost, the State might he forced to seek a remedy by taxation. HAMILTON, This Day. A branch of the Land Settlement League was. formed last, night at a well-attended meeting under the auspices of the Chamber of Coinmerce. Mr G'. W. Richards, former chairman Of the Deteriorated Lands Com-

mittee, thought it was necessary to reduce the costs of settlement. The petrol tax would help considerably in making it possible to give good reading without placing tbo heavy a rate burden on farms. Adequate money for reading cOuld be provided by capitalising the revenue from the petrol tax.