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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18653, 23 August 1930, Page 13

The pumiceous area at Tiroa and Mangapeehi, is being tested on a practical farming basis, by the Native Minister, with a view to closer settlement. Two hundred acres are now being top-dressed, and stock experiments will be introduced at an early date. If these are successful there will be 50,000 acres available for settlement in this area alone. The president of the International Agrarian Bureau has urged united action by all agrarians against United States, Canadian and Argentine wheat production. It is stated that he will attempt to persuade the agrarian leaders, who met at Geneva, to agree to united action by establishing uniform European tariffs against the United States, Canada and Argentine for five years.—Pastoral Review.