LAND SETTLEMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17982, 29 March 1930, Page 9

LAND SETTLEMENT.

ON SCIENTIFIC LINES.

AERIAL SURVEY TO BE MADE. IN THE WAITOMO COUNTY. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, Friday. That the Government has entered upon a scheme of land settlement based on scientific lines and in furtherance of which the latest and most ■modern equipment will be used, was indicated by Hon. 11. Atmore, Minister of Sciontific and Industrial Research, at Takaka. “I have given authority,” said the Minister, “for an aerial survey to be carried out immediately of an area of 1000 square miles in the Mairoa and Kopaki districts, situated in the Waitomo County. Data that formerly would have taken many months to collect will be thus mode available to geologists in as many days. I have also arranged with the Cawthron Institute for Mr T. Rigg, soil analyst, to proceed to that area forthwith for the purpose of preparing a soil survey map. It will thus be seen that future settlers to be placed on this area will be fortified with the mast up-to-date scientific knowledge available for the successful farming of sections. To my mind this is the way the problem of settling our undeveloped lands should he tackled, for thousands of pounds that would otherwise he .spent in experiments by farmers will be saved, and, unlike in some other parts of the Dominion, it will not be a case of the selector plodding on in the hope that the property may he profitable to the next generation.