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   Town planning and the polluted water of cities seems remote from farming. Perhaps this is one of our mistakes!

   Present developments, for the treatment of sewerage and waste water, call for the expenditure by taxpayers of multi-millions of dollars on huge bio-chemical processing plants, not yet seen in this country. But it is all so unnecessary!

   High volume irrigation and rapid soil building techniques can create for us City Forests which will solve our water Pollution problem in the most natural and obvious way, and, at the same time give us a whole series of environmental benefits.

   The spin-off from these suggestions would include lower local and other government taxes, reduced sewerage charges and a valuable and continuous timber supply from unique and beautiful forest parklands.

   The techniques which guarantee the success of the City Forest are not orthodox agricultural practices but those which my father has devised. They are firstly, the incredibly fast creation of deep fertile soil and secondly, the low-cost high-speed irrigation. I saw their development over many years on our own property and later their adoption by farmers round Australia.

   Allan Yeomans.