Financing catchment schemes in New Zealand

Abstract

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.