Disaster Areas
(N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, March 6. The Thames Valley, Coromandel, Ohinemuri and Hauraki Plains counties, as well as the Maramarua, Mangatangi, the Kaiaua districts, will be declared disaster areas if recommendation of a flood relief committee are approved by the Government. The committee met in Ngatea yesterday, at the request of the Minister of Rehabilitation (Mr Kinsella) to estimate damage caused by flash floods this week. A conservative estimate of damage, to farmlands alone and not including loss of production, was £120,000. Representatives from the Maori Affairs Department, the State Advances Corporation, Federated Farmers, the Lands and Survey Department as well as farmers and farm advisory officers of the Department of Agriculture, elected three men: Mr H. W. Hayward (Hauraki Plains County chairman), Mr G. J. Batten (farm advisory officer at Thames) and Mr G. C. Donovan (chairman of the Thames sub-province of Federated Farmers) as a committee.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 18
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150Disaster Areas Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 18
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