MILLERS' FLAT BLOCK.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 349, 22 April 1874, Page 2

MILLERS' FLAT BLOCK.

■warden Simpson's report. Memo in reply to that on memorial by Roxburgh Land Committee, numbered 14, 167-54, on the subject of block on Henderson's Run, Miller's Flat. The warden, in company with Mr. Robert M 'Leod, hotelkeeper, and one of the Land Committee, and Mr. Samuel Crogan, one of the public desiring land, went on the block of land in question, after some difficulty, for neither of the gentlemen mentioned apparently knew the particular locality of the block, although expressing themselves strongly as to its character. The block was traversed through its length and breadth, the survey pegs and lines being followed as guide, and the Warden has come to the conclusion that the block surveyed is one of the best that could be found in the locality, in which, opinion the gentlemen above mentioned joined. To use their own words, "We _ cannot, in justice, say but the land is. the best that can be got, and about the place we wanted it." The memorial is founded on a gross misrepresentation as to nature of laud, and apparently got up by people who have never seen it. None of the land on that part of ■ Henderson's run — that is, above the homestead — can be characterised as a shingle block. More luxuriantly-grassed country than the heights and spurs between Cargill and Anderson's boundary and Menzies' Creek could not be desired. The only drawback to their cultivation is their broken character, and that is not much greater than the land about Tuapeka, Waitahuna, and Table Hill districts. The surveyor, in his selection of the block just surveyed, has studied to embrace the portion with the most gradually sloping ridges, and therefore easiest of> cultivation. W. Lawrence Simpson. Warden. Clyde, April 9, 1874.