IRRIGATING CENTRAL OTAGO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2845, 23 September 1908, Page 11

IRRIGATING CENTRAL OTAGO.

THE CHATTO CREEK RIGHTS. (Fxou Our Own Correspondent)

WELLINGTON, September 15. Dr Chappie recently wrote to the Minister of Land*, appealing to him to purchase, on behalf of the Government, the Chatto Creek water rights for irrigation [ purposes. The Minister referred the matter to the Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Depaitmeut, and the latter has replied as follows:—" I consider it will be necessary to use extreme caution in dealing with all offers to the Government to sell water rights, and I do not think that an answer should be given in this case until we are in a position to know exactly that the water governed by the right will be available for inigating suitable land, and this cannot be done until the report by the officer of the Agiicultural DeiMitment is received." With regard to the report by tl.e officer of the Agricultural Department, th's is being put in hand, and it k understood that it will be available in about t«o months' time.

The estate of the late Sir Thomas Fitzgerald, the well-known MeJlxnirne fureeon, is valued for probate at £39,554, exrlushe of certain settled life policies amounting to £8569. The testator bequeaths £20u' to his old and trusted housekeeper, and £250 to the Melbourne Hospital, and the balance is Jeft to his three daughters. "Imitation Is the sincerest form of flattery." Everyone knows that Storrie's Ridger has ife imjtatorja. Order now; fox