c , The construction of a track from the Mam Tuapeka-Dunstan road to the Waikaia I bush — a Jlarge and valuable forest at the | head of the Waikaia riv«r— is at last about to j be accomplished. A sum of L2QOO for thia pura pose waa placed on the Provincial Estimates so far back as 1875-6, and the vote has been \ annualty repeated isince theri in the ; Approis priation Act, but for 1 some inscrutable reason . the expenditure has always been' withheld, f The Government have now authorised the s Vincent County Council to go on with the j work, and the track is being surveyed by Mr . L. Macge.Qige, the county" engineer, with i_ the result that already three applications for fc ' i sawmill licenses have been lodged with the . Otago Land Board. The " bush " is vari- '. I ously estimated at from 18 to 80 square milea j b ia extent, I
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Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 419, 19 December 1884, Page 6
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152Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 419, 19 December 1884, Page 6
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