SOIL CONSERVATION

Te Puke Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 19, 14 March 1947, Page 3

SOIL CONSERVATION

COLOUR, FILM IN TE PURE

A programme of vivid sqiind films in colour, dealing with soil erosion and river control in New Zealand and overseas, will ’in* shown in McDowell s Hall on Wednesday, 10th March, at 8 p.m. The film will lie shown for tile.benefit of the High School at 1 p.m. the same day. The Te Puke Chamber of Commerce associates itself with the showing of this film and urges all who possibly can to see this most interesting feature. There will he no charge for admission to any of the programmes. The damage to fertile soils by floods, grass fires, and imprudent forestry throughout New Zealand has been extensive in the past. The need to-day is to remedy past damage as fas a possible and to check those tendencies in the future. Such is the purpose of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act Of 1041, and now that the war is over the established Control Council has scope to bring some of the provisions of legislation into practice as soon as possible. In the distribution of plain information about the ruin due to malpractices which are within the control of men, and in spreading knowledge of the ways, to avoid bringing harm to the land, the Council should obtain wholehearted co-operation from all users of farm and forestry lands. It is" essential now for the people as a whole to do everything they can to - avoid the mistakes of the oast and to co-qjierate in applying the remedies that are essential if we are to preserve the heritage of our soil.