received by me were quite normal soil. It may have been reasonable and proper to sample such places to find out how frequently they occurred. It is necessary in examining the country generally to do this to see what the soils are like. 1029. But they could not be called patches of wheat- growing country. are those sample included in those taken from the district?—I am not giving you the salt pans. 1030. But the patches we are speaking of are salt patches?—Am I to infer that the majority of the samples of the soil taken Esperance were taken from the salt like? 1031.By the CHAIRMAN: Not the majority, but some—I do not know what proportion?—In that case it seems to me that carelessness must have been shown in the original sample of the country. 1032. By Mr. PADBURY: Do you mean the original samples?—Yes.