The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 77
Small Grazing-Run No. 171, Block VIII.; 1,272 acres
Small Grazing-Run No. 171, Block VIII.; 1,272 acres.
Agricultural and pastoral land, at an elevation varying between 200 ft. and 1,350 ft. above sea-level. This run comprises about 50 acres of good agricultural land on the frontage, and 1,222 acres of pastoral land, comprising some nice tussock hills, a tussock flat difficult of access, some good ferny slopes, and fern and tussock
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hills. Parts are suitable for ploughing and growing root-crops, About half is well covered with tussock and native grasses, into which a certain amount of clover and English grasses have spread, and the remainder is in fern. Water is said to dry up in a hot summer though doubtless there are springs on the section, and a supply might be conserved. Situated on the main road between Blenheim and Kaikoura, and seventeen miles and a quarter distant from Seddon Railway-station. The improvements (which are included in the price of the run) consist of 166 chains of boundary and other fencing, valued at £77 18s. (Note—The public shall have the free right of ingress, egress, and regress over the main road now in use, which passes through the run, until the deviation has been formed and opened for traffic.)