The territory referred to is that South of Dunedin, and does not include Central and North Otago, but is confined to South Otago, Eastern and Western Southland, where a fairly heavy rainfall is experienced in an average season and which would vary from 30 inches in the neighbourhood of Balclutha, to over 40 inches in other parts and where the hours of sunshine are less, than in other more favoured territories, and where cold bleak winters are experienced; consequently the conditions we have to contend with are, totally different from any other part of the Dominion.
