do with it unless I could see the way to the road being finished, that is, both formed and metalled, before his people began to arrive. It would probably be 18 months between the time of his leaving here and the arrival in New Zealand of his first immigrants, and that would give time for the work if vigorously executed. I have this last 14 months surveyed formed and partly metalled 22 miles of road chiefly through heavy bush and I can easily get the metalling done this summer - and as we have had the railway in hand too - there should be no difficulty in forming this road line. I should before taking much trouble about this matter be glad to learn whether the Native title is extinguished over the Block or in what position the purchase is. I remain Yours very truly A. Folett Halcombe