LAND UTILISATION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 367, 23 February 1937, Page 5

LAND UTILISATION.

Praise For Co-ordination Work in New Zealand.

Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, To-day.

High commendation for the efforts made in Ne'V Zealand to co-ordinate surveys of pastures, land utilisation, soils 1 and farm management, was expressed by Mr Arthur G. Lowndes. M.Sc., Sydney, before leaving on his return to Australia. Mr Lowndes has spent some time in this Dominion studying various research projects, and during the science congress- at Auckland he read papers on his research work in Tasmania and Queensland on land utilisation surveys.

Co-ordination Work such as was being done in New Zealand was most essential, said Mr Lowndes. Scientific workers in this country were far ahead of any such effort in New South Wales, Queensland or Tasmania. Methods- in this country, he felt were being developed along the soundest lines. Pasture research, so vitally important to New Zealand because of the Dominion's depdendence on grassland farming, was proceeding along a valuable avenue. Soil surveys.' using modern technique should be extended, but the work to date had reached a high standard. These -surveys must prove of value in further development of primary industries. Farm management surveys at Lincoln College, Canterbury, and in the Hawke’s Bay district, represented a desirable attempt to approach the difficult economic problems of individual success or failure in a scientific manner.