Otekaike Station (Robert Campbell and Sons, Limited, proprietors), Otekaike, near Duntroon. This fine station has been worked for nearly fifty years. The property consists of 18,000 acres of freehold, and 37,000 acres of leasehold land, including a number of educational, hospital and other reserves. About 96,000 steep, mostly half-breds, and a flock of and Merinos, are depasturted on the property. The estate extends from the top of Mount Domett to Duntroon, and is bounded on the north by the Waitaki river and Otekaike stream; on the east by the Maerewhenua river; on the south and south-west by the leading ranges dividing the Waitaki watershed from Central Otago; and on the weat by Mr. Chapman's run at Kurow. All the principal buildings on the estate are of Oamaru stone, and the house, built under the direction of the late Hon. Robert Campbell, is one of the finest of its kind in New Zealand. There are excellent stables in addition to the ordinary station buildings, which include a woolshed, manager's house, and cottages.

Mr. John Tait , Manager of the Otekaike Station, was born in 1844, in Berwickshire, Scotland. He was brought up on a farm, and came to the Bluff, in 1863, by the ship “Sir William Eyre.” After a few years as a shepherd in Southland he joined Messrs Robert Campbell and Sons in 1870. For some years he was head shepherd on Burwood and Otekaike stations, and then became manager of Burwood, in Southland, where he was stationed for twelve years, and was afterwards for three years manager of Galloway station, whence he was transferred to the managership of the Otekaike station in 1899. Mr. Tait was married, in 1878, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Thomson, of Ayrshire, Scotland, and has one son.