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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 8

In the opiuon of the Forest ahd Bird Protection Society’s executive the proposed Bill, recently mentioned by the Hon R. Semple, to promote better measures for the protection of farming country against erosion, should have the support ( of all thoughtful New Zealanders, Who have read the reports of ever-increasing flood damage in many parts of the Dominion. The protective works of rivet boards are usually along the lower reaches of rivers, whose flooding habits are becoming worse as the result of past destruction of native forests around the sources of the streams. This expensive process has often drawn a repetition of the old saying about the maintenance of an ambulance at the foot of a precipice instead of erecting a good fence at the top. One envelope of newspaper clippings received recently by the society included the lamentations of local bodies about the difficulties of curbing the erosive strength of three rivers—the Manawatu, the Tukituki (near WaipukuraU) and the Tutaekuri. Similar reports come in regularly from various districts of the North and South Islands.