TAUPO LAND CAN BE BROUGHT IN

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 8 October 1929, Page 5

TAUPO LAND CA N BE BROUGHT IN

PRISON. WARDERS VIEW. '

INQUIRY CONTINUED.

Press Association — Copyright. WELLINGTON, This Day,

At the Taupo Railway Inquiry, Thomas Banks, principal warder at the Hautu Prison Camp, said he had fourteen years’ experience of pumice land, and 1 was convinced that it w r ould produce satisfactorily, provided it was worked in the right majinei.

j All that’was needed was huma.s, and he had produced that by ploughing in clover. He considered three parts of land contiguous to the proposed route could bo broken in for settlement.

i “I would safely say it would cost fifteen pounds api acre to bring it into profitable occupation under group settlement.”

He considered the best method! was on a community basis or organised labour on large scale.