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Sawdon: Run No. 75. This run is admittedly dangerous country. It is situated in the neighbourhood of Burkes Pass the latter being the key to the entrance to the Mackenzie country, and subject to heavysnowfalls The distance from Burkes Pass to the rail-head at Fairlie is fourteen miles. lhe main road to Mount Cook Hermitage intersects the run. A small portion of Sawdon Run lies towards Fairlie; the remainder flanks the Mackenzie Basin, about 13,000 acres being actually on the Mackenzie Plain. The total area of the Sawdon Run is 27,100 acres, which is classified as follows- 10,400 acres of very good grazing-country; about 7,500 acres of good flat; about 2 600 acres of dangerous country; and about 6,600 acres of poor flat. We estimate the fair carrying-capacity of this run is at about 8,000 sheep, including breeding-ewes. Except when subjected to a disastrous snowstorm, this run maintains its flock. The average percentage of lambs for the last five-year period (exclusive of the snow losses in 1908, which amounted to 2,100 sheep out of a flock of 7,200) was 61 per cent., and the death-rate 10 per cent. Taking into consideration the proximity- of this run to Fairlie—an advantage winch admits of the removal of stock to the low country during an exceptionally heavy snowstorm, and the general distribution of the winter country, it is considered advisable to subdivide it. We recommend'that Sawdon Run be subdivided into two pastoral runs, to be known as Sawdon Run and Sawdon No. 2, the former having a carrying-capacity of 4,000 sheep, and the latter having a carrying-capacity of 4,000 sheep; the upset rental for each run to be fixed at £200 per annum. Whalesback : Run No. 74. Whalesback Run includes both watersheds of the Dalgety Range, and also the country lying between that range and Burkes Pass Road. The greater portion of the run is outside of the Mackenzie country. The run contains 32,500 acres of well-grassed and comparatively safe country It is classified as follows: 3,800 acres of well-grassed spurs, extending westerly from Dalgety Range (good ewe country); about 5,000 acres of the Dalgety Range (sunny faces) i ng from the Mackenzie Pass; about 14,400 acres (being the central and southern portions of Dalgety Range) of principally summer country; and about 9,300 acres of poor cold flat. The IlaSaramea Pass, P which is-at the south-western boundary of the run is about thirteen miles from Alburv Railway-station. We estimate the carrying-capacity of Whalesback at about 8 400 Z There is no doubt that this run can be profitably subdivided. The Hakataramea Pass, at the southern end of the run, and the Mackenzie Pass, at the northern end of the run, liberate the country from isolation, and facilitates subdivision. We recommend that Whalesback Run be subdivided into two runs, one of them to be known as Whalesback Run, and the other as Whalesback No. 2 Run. The carrying-capacity ofWhaks back is about 3,700 sheep, and of Whalesback No. 2, 4,700 sheep. The annual rental of the former to be fixed at £280, and the latter at £320. Grampians: Run No. 72. About thirty-one miles from Fairlie by main road. The Grampians Run is reputed to be the btst run in the Mackenzie country, and the quality of the pasturage and lay of the country to ffr tovvards establishing the correctness of that opinion. More than three-fourths of the run fies between the main Grfmpians Range and the Mackenzie Plains, with, for the most part a £" S pect. Although at times, but rarely, subject to very severe snowstorm* he &*mnians is a safe breeding-country. The run carries merinos and half-breds The total area ot The Grampians Run is 45,000 acres, of which about 26,000 acres consists of sound winter and the Grampians nun , , Bummer country, well grassed up to a high altituTt?£and wlu proportioned'throughout the run. The Gramtude. rhe winter and sum including 5,800 breeding-ewes. The average percentage 7 ~o- ««+ Tbpre is no doubt thai this run is capable of subdivision. P B W? recommendt <it be divided into three pastoral runs, to be known as Grampians, Grampian", and Grampians No. 3, t, .rrying-capacitie*'respectively being MOO ' 5.800 sheep, and 5.700 5he,.,., and the upset annual rentals respectively £320, £3..0, and £.«U. Ghat's Hills: Run No. 73. Purely a summer run. Situated on the left bank of the Tekapo River (part of Mackenzie Plaint the distant from Fairlie being thirty-eight miles. The area of this run IS 26,000 acres SSCrfJS -my land al , destitute of grass f^^ZSS^^^^ Sning MucS of 29,862 acres, using the former as summer grazing only : proU 4 fu7be upset rental of £240 per annum. Haldon: Run No. 70. ~ . , , t t ,. f.„,,. ~,;w from Fairlie Tt is situated at the extreme worked by the pieseni ii> J , 10fton acreg (the whole area being worked as one containing 19 0 acres andaj *ehM£™M ««£ country has . go * od t , being onThetst SHX Mackenzie Plain, is safe country regarded from a snow pomt of view.