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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 991, 23 June 1879, Page 2

We learn from a report of the business transacted at the last meeting of the H\ aate Laiwli Board that the Secretary of the Education 80-mi baa requested that section 60, block XV., Awamoko district, which is a portion of a water reserve, be added to the Avamoko school ground, and that the matter has been referred to the ranger for his report as to whether or not this portion of the reserve is required »3 a place to water cattle. This is, we learn, tlic section over which there was lately so much dispute and some litigation between Mr. Peter Aitchison and the County Council, and about the damming of the water on which by a person who seemed anxious to irrigate Mr. Hugh Koto's land, that worthy settler was so greatly annoyed. lias this action of the Education Board anything to do with that o£ the agriculturist whose name has become inseparable from road board election excitement and the improvement of his fellows' income by manipulating the watercourses running through their land? There may be some connection between these events, and we think that it is the duty of those settlers who arc interested in the continued reservation of the section in question, as a watering place for their live stock, to see tha". it is not interfered with. The nutstion to be asked of the ranger—Mr. M'Leod —is one that we think he will be the better able jto deal with dispassionately from the circnmstanca that he has held his appointment only three weeks. It would take longer than that to persuade him that the settlers living in the vicinity of the section sought for school purposes can dispense with the use of it without being seriously inconWe are not of those that ; believe that Mr. Peter Aitchison is at the

bottom of the affair. He is too good natared to allow his feelings to lead him to commit, or incite others to commit, such an injustice. There -trill be no necessity to write more about the matter now. The ranger, doubtless, knows what his duty is, and he will, we believe, do it.