Section 4, Block VII.; 906 acres.

Agricultural and pastoral land, rising from sea-level to an elevation of 1,100 ft. This section comprises about 180 acres of agricultural land and 726 acres of pastoral hills. The agricultural land lies in the vicinity of the homestead and down the Flaxbourne River, much of" it being of good quality, although some is light; nearly all has been cultivated, and is now in grass, but there is some Californian thistle in one or two of the paddocks. The pastoral land consists of steep limestone hills, principally in tussocks and native grasses, intermixed with English page 30 grass in some places. Situated near the mouth of the Flaxbourne River, and watered by that river. The Chancet Road (unformed) to the coast intersects this section, which is fourteen miles and a half distant from Seddon Railway-station by the main Blenheim-Kaikoura Road and the cart-road down the river. The improvements (which are included in the price of the section) consist of 421 chains of boundary and other fencing, and about 4 acres of plantation, valued at £264 17s. 6d.