BLACKSTONE HILL MATTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13846, 8 March 1907, Page 3

BLACKSTONE HILL MATTERS.

Mr J. ,T. Ramsay, general f.ecretaiy" lor Ihe petitioner:! in the mailer o; the siib-ilivision of Bladistimo Hil!, etc., has received the following telegram irom Mr J. A. Macpherson, M.H.K., in reply to. a request thai he would forward on to the Hon. ilr M'Nsib the resolutions carried at a public mooting at St. Bntlians:—"Resolutions passed at public meeting at St. Bathans received and forwarded to the Minister. This matter has been fully and urgently addressed by uie upon Minister end Board since our joint visit to Central Otago. Rims will be opened on April 9, ballot at A'asebj on 1-lt-li." Mr Hamsay states that exactly what he has been warning Ilio Minister against is going to happen. K will be April U tiefore a settler knows lie has (he land, which means that it will be May before h> can get \w feiit-iiig on ihe ground, and midwinter before lie has his hind fenced, lie will miss all the, stock sales, and be unable to get breeding ewes, and al! Iwcause of the failure "£ the Land Board to put up the runs in TeasonaWe time. Mr liams'ay adds that the Bhickslono runs were ready in January, only one slight alteration having to bo made iii the- survey, and that there can be no possible excuse for the delay in putiiug them up. 11 practically means that the board is blocking ilio small settlers b> n side wind, mid that in the Home Hills the successful applicants, i? there'are .any, under sucli conditions will be unable 1o fence or stock this season.