FERTILISER DELIVERIES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 3

FERTILISER DELIVERIES

Merchants handling fertilisers are advising farmers who have decided to grow wheat to place all orders possible for delivery in the next two or three weeks, to avoid delay. The arrival of heavy shipments of raw materials later in the month will place a heavy load on railway waggons whilst discharging operations are in progress, with a respltant delay in the dispatch of orders from the works.

Southland Run Passed.—One of the oldest Southland high-country runs, Greenvale, at Fairlight, near the headwaters of the Mataura river, south of the southern boundary of Lake Wakatipu, was offered for sale at Invercargill the other day and was passed in at £B7OO. The area of 24,283 acres attracted 1 an initial bid of £5OOO, and final bids of £250 and £l5O. The property has a historic background and was associated for many years with names well known in the province’s pastoral industry. In 1840, eight years before Dunedin was settled, William S. Trotter landed at Waikouaiti and in 1859 he applied for Run No. 323, situated at the southern end of Lake Wakatipu. In 1860 “Greenvale” and “Trotter’s Plain,” as it was often called, ran 2000 sheep, and in 1871 the acreage, given as 60,000, carried flocks totalling 18,000. William Trotter died in 1893, and the property passed from the family five years later. The original run was cut up in 1913 and the present block selected by the lessee, Alexander McCaughan. In 1915 the property was transferred to Robert Elliott Matheson, and the family has continued to work it since.