Metekingi pp Atihau-Whanganui Incorporation and Others v Rangitikei-Wanganui Regional Water Board and Another - [1975] 2 NZLR 150

Water and water control — Electric power board seeking authority to construct artificial lake which would submerge 700 acres of farm land — Submersion of land the factor to be weighed against advantage of producing electricity — "Soil conservation" includes "land conservation" — Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967, ss 24, 25.