OAMARU NEWS NOTES.
(FIIOM OUR OWM CoiuiEsrosDEXT.) ( OAMAKU, March 3.
The Premier has replied to merchants hero that- Mr Alio is leaving the colony next Monday or Tuesday, and advising that other "will be in tlio colony consequently it has been decided to await the visit of other experts.
Messrs Baron (chairman of the Purchase Board), Barron (Chief. Commissioner, Otago), aucl John Duncan (member of the Otago Lain! Board) to-day inspected the Waitaki Plains Instate, which is under offer to tlm Government for purchase under tno Land for Settlements Act. Mr J. D.- Grant, many years accountant in the Colonial Bank here, and subsequently in the Bank of New Zealand, leaves tins week on a trip Home with six months' leave. He lias been presented with a travelling bag and pipe by thc< local staff of fch© bank, and is accompanied by many good wishes for a pleasant trip. It now appears as thcugh the frost, winch has extended with unusual frequency through this summer, has beon laying P rC^y.. heavy toll on crone in tlm district, While tho yield is good it is hardly up to tho hig.i expectations of a few wcAs ago. All latesown crops are still very backward, though the weather lately lma been favourable for harvesting, which is now pretty general.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12602, 4 March 1903, Page 5
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