RUNS IN WATKOUAITI. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1383, 1 June 1878, Page 16

RUNS IN WATKOUAITI. TO THE EDITOR.

Sin— Can you tel me, through the medium of yoor papsr, when the sheep luns in the Waikouaitl dixtriot htu likely to bo cut up in'o sectiona for fjrmß ? It seems to mo to he a. great pity that innuenne a>o»s of valuab'e land should to held by one or two indivi. dua's, to the injury of the public and the district in particular. Now th»t a railway is made at an Immense public cost the district is much more valuable, and were these r. rm cut up into sections ranglnc from ODe to two hundred aero*, the wholo lot would im readily sold at prices that I am sure would surprlsa the Government, and as a matter of course wou'd maka Walkouaili, which is so near to Dimedin, a moat impoitanl agricultural district. As matters now stand it appears to n.e, and to many others who are nnxlonfl to purchase lund in the district, that ths on* or two persons who hold the rnn« nro favoured at the public oxpen.se. I have heard it whitpered that an endeavour will be made to have Run No. 70 or 77, close to the township put tip in t\\ o or thrro 1 rcrc blocKs, soaito let it ptsa into thi- h nds of the picscn*- occupiers. Ido hope that piessure will be brought to beat upon the matter :is that (hii portion ot tno I'ublic KMntj wijbo dealt fairy wrl', viz : 1 y 1m ing i' cur up imn.cdiitply inle •mill b'oeks, t-o thst fanners and O'hfrswlh sma'l mean>iniy have a clunci <>i purchasing a piece of mound to seti c on. It lmi.sfc 1 c apparent to everyone that it wuld be vo*y nnfai • to the public, as well as uioit iojti'iou 1 . toth« district, for one or two persons to monopolise such a Inr. c orea in a rising district like Waikonniti, crucially afier to much public money has been spent in opening up and makii g the land in question va'uable. — I am, &o.

A Land Purchaser.

At the last meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria Mr G. H. Jl.J 1 . XJlrich was elected* corresponding member.

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