CORRESPONSDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1892, 19 January 1885, Page 2

CORRESPONSDENCE.

AN,EXPi,^poir.--,: r .i.. "rrr-vj r'j) • •. Sib.—Since the last meeting pf - tha -Special Settlement Association, I haTfc heard it said thafc-aa' a member of fchfr Exploring Committee Ijdid nut db my ; duty, and to clear- myself I take ihk M. ' vantageof your columns.' On'.fche' Wednes- • day/following ihr appointment- of thr ' Committee we had a meeting, when J $ ■urged the' deaifiibility of startinig,.<to-tlj|® '

Friday following, as I waßhetl,to ; return on the Thursday of the next week, my . own private affairs requiring mo hero. Tho understanding was then como to that a start should bo made on Friday, but in • -consequence of tho exceedingly wet day on tho first of tho year, tho rest of tlns .sjiWty dcpidecTnot to go before Sunday.. being >h§ case, 1 left on Friday'by! Jho coach,' and on Saturday, feeling that was a part of my duty to visit.,the -firaumea Block as per .'instructions, I, . together with Mr W. W. SlcCardle, made that visit, vide my report as published by vou on tho 7th or Bth of this month;. On "Monday morning, the rest of the.party i haying arrived, wo went on together and j inspected the Mangahao, our inspection j lasting for three days, and I returned on j ■ Thursday, well satisfied with the country-! seen, Upon tho return of Mr he and I went into tho matter of a ; report, the result being the one presented I at the last meeting of the Association. ■ • TVliilo in the bush, Mr Reese, Mr Kibble-; ■white,' and myself-- were of opinion thai oould get a block o£ land' i mii< <- iride'by.7 or- 8-biilea long,-suitable for t]\ ; Sqjitoient. However, upon Mr Reese's" j rmp!n,'he explained that there was 8 cer-tain-creek near the Tararua which i:', would, not be desirable; to cross, whic'.i is Bhown on the plan to be' about li to I|. miles from themouth of the Mangahi;o,| nver.: ' : That -b'eing the oaae, we defcided- : '■ to advocate:the selection of a block;* ■ ■ laiid'.about If miles- wide by 12 mii( . ; ! long, as shown by the plan- presented tb" the - Association, ■ -Mr -Reese and myself felt ;that' thef&- could .be no mistake .about tiarMoek, : -andli^'-Mr^ibblowhite'fij-' turned tvith-Mr Reese instead of JwYtk tothe last'hour, Lhave not. theSlightest doubt in my own mind but that; healso would-have-concurred. Sinco my Mtilrn'l-had a eonvcreation ivit-h' Mr Me-' ' <^dlej -and he'says that from information; /• he had received thero Tjraa not more than ' 2Q,000-acres of land available in this -This being considered, and if it is ', decided that the Woodville Association are-to take half, (the block being only 12 '. smilea long), we should have to take a wock.about G miles by- -3, and if our ' choice ii "confined to tho north end I am ijjfein wo shall have to go some distance ■'wb" th'e hills-and there would bo somo . four or five thousand acres unadapted for <syte -i'-S f( dtromon ts. This is my re&ton for piking the assertion that I should prefer* td;witfidfaw : tban to bo coftfined to select frsiffa-blook qf this nature? Howovoi?,.l truat ■'•'wb shall -now go on' smoothly; and tliat'W-wiU'be iii'a position to mak'o eiich representations. to tho Minister as will ■ cause him; to jpnt- the block now iiit-on-ded "to'bo applied fqi\ ■ r . I axa, Job Vile.