TRYING OUT LAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 961, 2 May 1930, Page 8

TRYING OUT LAND

EXPERIMENTS ONNORTHERN BLOq

MINISTER PREFERS CAUTION Experiments are mad , mine whether the- Kapiro i lock about XC-*>o*s acres, cer. ring on W**. papa, is better suited for finning * afforestation. When the Minister of Lands, tfe® Hon. G. W. Forbes, visited the bLoefc yesterday and met setti an -ipia*. ation of the work was made by Mr. £ Rimhlvn, of the Agr: oul'urt ment. who said that the tests had yet to be finalised. The block, he sal i t*. - irtnsto^ country which was carryir.g - ui>. b* had never been covered w.- forest, On the surface th- land. apparent was suitable for cultivation xnc. L* experiments cov-- a wid- -ange g methods, different sort. ' beKnc nurd settlers we:- of op r.. - th it the block should be thrown open for of- c me*t at once. In his reply Mr. Forbes - the need for certainty before definite step* in the direction of settling the were taken. The Governm- I :.t id ’.id of this kind in connection with catt!*sick and similar areas. The m®* throwing open of t.-.e r:: would be taken by most men --eking 'and as as implication that it was suitable Zoe settlement. Therefore it appeared to him -hat this suitability would have to be clearly established before such action couli be taken. Mr. Forbes gave an assurin' e that his department would fav- the setting up of a settler.- committee, to be associated with th- -xp-r. mental work, should this be de y.red. in order to ensure the officer in charge being ih the closest possible touch with the settlers.