Volume 4 of the Lincoln Papers in Water Resources comprises the papers presented at a Training Course which was organised by the New Zealand Association of Soil Conservators and sponsored by Lincoln College. The course was held at the College on 7 to 9 May 1968, and the theme was ''Financing Catchment Schemes in New Zealand." The volume 4 includes the full text of the following papers : R. D. Dick – Soil Conservation in New Zealand, N. W. Collins - Rivers Control and Drainage in New Zealand, A. F. Greenall - The Present Subsidy System in New Zealand, F. G. Howe - Financing of Soil Conservation and River Control Schemes, G. A. G. Frengley - The Effect of Soil Conservation subsidies on Farm Development and an Example in Practice, Edited by B. Douglass – Conclusions of the Workshop on Systems of Cost Sharing and Finance, A. J. Warrington – Some Aspects of Conservation Farm Planning in the South Island, G. Bradfield - Farm plan, typical (Wairarapa) North Island preparation, B. P. Dwyer - Procedure for Preparation of Subsidy Proposals for River and Drainage Control Schemes, G. S. Aburn - The part Treasury plays in catchment schemes, R. Jensen – Discounting techniques, A. C. Norton - An illustrative example of evaluation procedures, A. G. T. McArthur - Recommendations from research on persuasion for soil conservators, A. G. T. McArthur - Decision and scheduling plans for securing district agreement on soil conservation and river control projects, A. G. T. McArthur - An introduction to network analysis for soil conservators, J. P. C. Watt - Integrated watershed control, D. B. Dallas, Co-ordination of agencies and summary of conference. [Show full abstract]

Lincoln College, the College of Agriculture of the University of Canterbury, sponsors an active research and teaching programme in hydrology, soil conservation and water resources development. The purpose of these Papers is to communicate research results and new developments in these fields as rapidly as possible, and particularly to report the results of projects undertaken in conjunction by the Department of Agricultural Engineering and the New Zealand Agricultural Engineering Institute. From time to time the opportunity will be taken to publish material originating elsewhere in New Zealand with which the College is associated and which could not otherwise be made available.