KAIKOURA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 100, 26 April 1909, Page 7

KAIKOURA.

(From the Sun.)

I Thursday. There is an imperfect idea in, Northern Maryborough and some other parts of New Zealand as to the line of country (that the South Island Trunk Raalway is likely to take." On© winter speaks of the line as going from Culverden to the north. That us .-wrong.. The line will go in a. northerly direction from Parnassus! Anothea- error is that last week the Hon. R. McKenzie passed along the whole length of the country that the line will eventually traverse. He missed thirty to forty miles of the territory the line will run .through when completed. He. dame up -the coast, and therefore saw nothing, except in the dim distance, of the fine 'pastoral country between Parnassus and the centre of th© County of Kaikouira. Consequently jithe Minister for Public Works has an, imperfect personal knowledge of one of the most impo.nta.nt and valuable (from a producing point of view) sections of the couaiitry to be served by the (railway when made. A meeting of ladies was held an the Library yesterday afternoon to make arrangements in connection wiitsi the social which is to be tendeired'to Sir Joseph and Lady Ward. A number of apologies were received for non-at-tendance, but those present were most enthusiastic in determining that, no effort will be spared to make the social unequalled in'the history of Kaikoura. Another meeting is to be hold, when the date of the visit to open the new wharf is definitely made known. Mr F. Stevenson Smith, Commissioner of Grown Lands, for Maflborough,' sold/ the lease, for seven years, of eighteen sections, (ranging from 2 roods to 3 aoreis 35 perches, on Kaikoura, Peninsula, yesterday morning, the purchaser in each case being Miss Flint. The sold a® fol-lows:-—Seetaoini 183, 10s per 'annum (upset rental 10s) j sections 208,t0 210, £2 10s (upset rental £1 10s); sections "283 to 288, £5 (upset rental £3 ss): sections 289 to 294, £6 (upset (rental £3 ss); sections' 295 and 296, £2 15s (upset rental £1 ss). . ; ■ -