New plan to aid salt fight

Reafforestation of 130 hectares of land in the Wellington Dam catchment area will take place this year as part of a programme designed to control stream salinity. It is part of the reafforestation programme being considered by the Public Works Department which would ultimately reforest 200 square kilometres of cleared catchment. The programme represents 30 per cent of the cleared land and would affect about 60 farmers. The Minister for Works and Water Supplies, Graham MacKinnon said the area to be planted was on the former Stene holding on the Bingham River, now owned by the Public Works Department. Financial assistance for the project was being sought from the Commonwealth Government. PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to provide a public view of this newspaper article as the copyright is held by the publisher of Western Farmer and Grazier. If you would like to obtain a copy of this newspaper article for research purposes, please ‘request a copy'. This article is part of the WISALTS (Whittington Interceptor Sustainable Agriculture Land Treatment Society Incorporated) Collection