AERIAL SURVEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 933, 28 March 1930, Page 11

AERIAL SURVEY

PREPARING FOR LAND SETTLEMENT GOVERNMENT’S PLANS Press Association NELSON, Today. That the Government has entered upon a scheme of land settlement based on Scientific lines, and in furtherance of which the latest and most modern equipment Is ured, was indicated by the Hon. H. Atmore, Minister of Scientific and Industrial Research, at Taka ka. “£ have given authority,** said the Minister, “for an aerial survey to be carried out immediately of an area of 108 square miles in the Mairoa and Kopaki districts, situated in Waitomo County. Data that formerly would have taken many months to collect will be thus made available to geologists in as many days. “I have also arranged with the Cawthron Institute for Mr. T. Rigg, soil analyst, to proceed to that area forthwith for the purpose of preparing a soil-survey map. It will thus bo seen that the future settlers to be placed on this area will be fortified with the most up-to-date scientific knowledge available for successful farming of sections. To my mind, this is the way the problem of settling our undeveloped lands shoulH be tackled, for thousands of pounds that would otherwise be spent in experiment by farmers will bo saved. Unlike in some other parts of tho Dominion, it will not be a case of the selector plodding on In the hope that property might be profitable to the next generatipn,” he concluded.