THE HON R. M'NAB.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9212, 15 April 1908, Page 1

THE HON R. M'NAB.

[From Our Correspondent.] ] LAWRENCE, April 14. , While Sir Joseph Ward spent the j Monday at Lawrence, the Hen R. M'Nab travelled from Balclutha to Tuapeka Mouth a distance of some twenty-eight miies. The road runs through well-grassed pastoral country. Hitherto the land has been held in large ru,ns, but these have been and are being broken, up in every direction. Barney's, the first estate outside of Balclutha, contains some 7000 acres, and has been broken up and settled by the Government. It has now some dozen families on it. The next estate is Greenfield, a block of 23,000 acres. This has been cut up by the Government and is now settled by forty-nine families. Other estates have been cut up privately, but the local people claim that theve is still something to be done in this 'direction. ' Tuapeka Mouth is a small picturesque township at the junction of the Tuapeka with the Clutha. The population is 6teadily growing, and, although there is no " boom," the settlers boast that £here is not an unemployed man in the district. Strong representations were made to the Hon R. M'Nab as to the need for a railway connection with the outside world, it being pointed out that this railway would open up nearly a quarter of a million acres of pastoral % and agricultural land.