DETERIORATED LANDS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 52, 24 May 1927, Page 14

DETERIORATED LANDS

EXPERIMENTS IN OPOTIKI WATCHING THE RESULTS (From Our Oxen Correspondent .) OPOTIKI, To-day. Some considerable time ago the Department of Agriculture commenced experiments in the Opotiki district with the object of succesfully dealing with the problem of deteriorated lands in the Bay of Plenty. In connection with this matter the Bay of Plenty Development League has received the following communication from the Hon. O. Hawken, Minister of Agriculture:— “With reference to your letter of the 21st ultimo, regarding experiments in top-dressing in the Bay of Plenty, I have to advise that, in addition to my predecessor’s communication of July 27, 1925, some experimental work was put in hand in the Bay of Plenty. The work in hand comprises top-dressing and regrassing on the property of Mr. G. Joblin, Waioeka, Opotiki, and also top-dressing on the property of Mr. F. Small, Opotiki. The work has not yet been sufficiently long in progress to warrant the department in issuing a report, but full particulars of the results are being secured, are being carefully kept, and will be published for general information along with the results of other experimental top-dress-ing and regrassing work being carried out on lands reverting to secondary growths. Just when the publication of these particulars will be made I am not in a position to state.”