TAUPO ENQUIRY
(By Telegraph—Press Association).WELLINGTON, October 8. At the Taupo Railway Inquiry, Thomas Banks, principal warder of Hautu prison camp, said he had had fourteen years experience in pumice lands and was convinced it would produce satisfactorily provided it was worked in the right manner. All that was needed was humus and he had produced that by ploughing in clover. He considered three parts of the land contigouiis to the proposed route could be broken in for settlement. “I would safely say it would cost £ls an acre tc ' bring it into profitable occupation j under the group settlement. He considered the best method was bn a com munity basis of organised labour on a large scale.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 5
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117TAUPO ENQUIRY Hokitika Guardian, 8 October 1929, Page 5
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