THE MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK.

Otago Witness, Issue 1170, 2 May 1874, Page 22

THE MILLER'S FLAT BLOCK.

The following memo, has been handed to us for publication. It will be noticed that some correspondence has appeared in our columns in reference to this matter :—: — Memo, in reply to that on Memorial by Roxburgh Land Committee, numbered 14,167, on the subject of Block LIV., on Henderson's Run, Miller's Flat :

The Warden, in company "with Mr Robert M'Leod, hotelkeeper, and one of the Land Committee, and Mr Samuel Grogan, one of the public desiring land, -went on the block of land in question, after some difficulty, for 1 neither of the gentlemen mentioned apparently knew the particular locality of the Block, although expressing themselves strongly as to its character. The Block was traversed through its length and breadth, the survey pegs and lines being followed as guides ; and the Warden has come to the conclusion that the Block surveyed is one of the best that could be found in the locality — in which opinion the gentlemen abovementioned joined. To use their own words — " We cannot, in justice, say but the land is the best that can be got, and about the place we wanted it." The memorial is founded on a gross misconception as to the nature of the land, anti apparently got np by people who have never seen it. None of the land on thaft part of Henderson's Run—that is, above the homestead— can be characterised as a shingle block— more luxuriantly - grassed, oountry than the heights and opens between Cargill and Andorson'B boundary md the Menzie Creek could not be desired. The- only drawback to their cultivation is their broken character, and that is not mnoh greater than the land about Tnapeka, Waitahuna, and Table Hill district". The surveyor, in his selection of the Block juat surveyed, has studied to embrace the portion with the most gradually sloping ridges, and therefore easiest of cultivation. W. Laureotk Simi'SON, Wiwrd&tr

Clyde, April 9th, 18?^