FARM LANDS
FEAR OF DETERIORATION DANGER TO BE AVOIDED The Government’s realisation of the need to avoid the deterioration of farm land was affirmed by the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. J. G. Barclay, at a meeting at Ashburton. They wanted to have primary industry on a sound basis when the war ended, he added. The Minister was speaking at a meeting called for the consideration of harvest difficulties, and Mr J. Moore pointed out that pastoralists had their problems, too. They did not want land to go out of production, because possibly the biggest enemy soldier settlers had to face after the last war was the growth of weeds on deteriorated lands. That might be the problem again. They should endeavour to keep farms and flocks in their present state, for what took many years to build up could be lost in a short time. The Government was working on the lines mentioned, said the Minister They thought they would be able to maintain potential production.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4534, 9 February 1942, Page 5
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