Small Grazing-run No. 176, Block V.; 1,370 acres.

Agricultural and pastoral land, at an elevation varying between 300 ft. and 1,000 ft. above sea-level. This run comprises 120 acres of agricultural flat land, of which about 40 acres have been cultivated and now in grass, 80 acres being in tussock and native grasses. There are 1,250 acres of pastoral hills, downs, and flats difficult of access, all in tussock and native grasses, intermixed with clover and English grasses in places. A portion of the pastoral land will grow root or fodder crops, but is too steep for page break agriculture. Watered by the Needles River. This run is situated on the Needles Road (unformed), one mile and a half from the proposed township, and fourteen miles and three-quarters distant from Seddon Railway-station by the main road from Blenheim to Kaikoura, and its new deviation (two miles and a quarter, unformed). The improvements (which are included in the price of the run) consist of 237 chains of boundary and other fencing, valued at £106 0s. 7d.