SOIL CONSERVATION
| °Sir,-In a recent issue of The Listener you commented on Mr. Cumberland’s book on soil erosion. This was an excellent article and drew very necéssary attention to what is perhaps the most important book published in New Zealand during recent years. You now print a very interesting letter from Dr. Compton, of Havelock North, on reafforestation. This is a valuable contribution to the subject. In combination with other evidence these are proofs that the public is at least becoming alarmed at the disastrous effects of erosion and appears to put a higher value on our native forests. We all now realise that. most of the high country should never have been fenced so that it would have acted as a buffer against erosion’ and saved our greatest asset-our very precious top soil. If our top soil goes out to sea at the present rate everything goes; our standard of living will drop to zero because practically all our wealth gomes from the soil. The first job is to take back all high country so that nature may put its own covering of native trees back. The second job is to start nurseries of native trees and plant out on all suitable areas. The third job is to scrap the idea that exotics will save our soil; and the fourth job is to declare active war on all imported | vermin-rabbits. deer. opossums, etc.-
HAROLD
MENZIES
(N orth Auckland
| Forest Society).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 24
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241SOIL CONSERVATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 332, 2 November 1945, Page 24
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