A USEHOLD QUESTION.
COUNCILLOR’S OBJECTION. Dairying Land for Trees. r The proposition that local bodies should concern themselves with the matter of the use made of land was enunciated by Cr. E. J. Darby at the monthly meeting of the Matamata County Council at Tirau on Friday. Cr. E. J. Darby said there was a block of 3000 acres secured by a company for tree-planting. This block, 'bn the Waotu road, was suitable for dairying. From a dairying man’s point of view, it was criminal to plant dairying land in trees. The dairyman was carrying the burden of the national debt, but the trees would not yield anything for twenty or thirty years. They would even then be about fifteenth rate timber, and if the scheme were 100 per cent efficient it would even then not compare with dairying. There was plenty of waste land to plant trees on, without encroaching upon dairying land. He would give notice of motion that the council consider the matter at next meeting.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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169A USEHOLD QUESTION. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 160, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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