SOIL EROSION
* ITS DANGER TO NEW ZEALAND STRESSED .MR. J. B. COTTERILL'S SPEECH IN THE HOUSE ( Per Presa Aisociation.) PARLIAMENT BLDGS., July 14. Mr. J. B. Cotterill (Govt., Wanganui) spoke for the first time in the present session in the House of Representatives to-day. Contributing to lhe Address-in-Reply debate, he said he had been very interested in the report of the committee set up to consider soil erosion throughout New Zealand and he expressed the hope that the Government would adopt the committee's recommendations. There had been very serious erosion in th» back country of Wanganui and he was of the opinion that the problem was one of the most important which faced the Government. Mr. Cotterill also paid tribute tn lhe effort which had been made throughout the season to teach people to swim. One of the greatest difficulties which had been experienced in the learn-to-swim campaign . was the lack of proper training facilities in the country centres and he thought the Government should be prepared to assist the people in country centres to secure such facilities.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 6
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178SOIL EROSION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 166, 17 July 1939, Page 6
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