FOREST, LANDS AND TOURIST SCHEMES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5326, 12 February 1947, Page 5

FOREST, LANDS AND TOURIST SCHEMES

Departmental Officers' Tour OI District ; The party. of high officers of the several Government Departments concerned in the development of the Waikato basin spent its second day in tho RotoTua area inspecting the Waipa State mill and various State Forest projeets embracing a tour of the Galatea settlement and the lakes road. To-day the party will inspect Native land development sehemes and I.ands Department projeets, including Waiotapu, the Kaingaroa Forest and Reporoa-Broadlands. Headquarters to-night and to-morrow night will be at Taupo. There, Native development and the scenic possibilities of the Tokaanu-Tau-marunui Road will be investigated. Mr. -D. M. Greig, Under-Secretary of the Lands and Suryey Department, mentioned last night that one of the plans his department was concerning itself with 'immediately was the breaking-in and sowing in grass of 1000 acres near Maraetai this autumn, to provide meat and milk for the projected hydro settlement there. The idea of the present tour, Mr. Greig added, had been suggested when he was about to embark on a routine inspection of the district. So many other departments — virtually all of them — were concerned with enterpri'ses here, that it had been agreed that the chief executive officers of seven of them should take the opportunity of discussing them informally together on the spot. The party in no sense constituted a development council, such as had been set up in New South Wale^.