Overview
Thurs.Mar.26
About 7.30 am continued demolishing + sorting timber of the fragments of whares near the "Kopje" [?] getting a great quantity of good timber including valuable boards. At 9.45 Father, John and Gil [?] arrived + taking a load of seed each we rode up Leighton's Spur to sow bush burns (20 acres next Styles'). Jim + Anstice went down for a second load of seed each + carried the six half sacks
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to various places on btwn [?] for our convenience. Father, Gil [?] + I did the sowing. We found that the fire had gone all over the area but had left a terrific number of logs with boughs mostly birch, but also fine rimus + a great number of magnificent hinaus. The supposed flat hill top turned out to be merely a broad ridge dipping in very steep faces to the west + cut into by small stream hollows 20ft. or so deep. There were a good number of well-burned patches of bare earth but there were also patches + strips of thick barren peat, especially round some of the huge ratas which crown the summit. We worked north, spur by spur from the top of Leighton's Spur finishing by 5.30 adout 3/4 [symbol required] of the burn. I intend to cut winding tracks thro' the "burn' picking to easiest routes + pitching a lot of the timber into handy gullies to rot away - scrubb will come up in these places but
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will have to be cut a few years hence. The "burn" in the NE corner was very bad + this part will certainly go back to scrub. Anstice + Jim started cutting the line for the east boundary fence along the bush edge. The two main tracks will be from the top of Leighton's Spur along the summit ridge to Style's boundary + also along the east fence-line - there will be numerous side tracks. We had a heavy day's work + it was rather rough on Father who is not as active as he once was, but who is still a grand worker. Anstice + I returned home with the others. Miss Gweneth Lockie staying at "Cheslyn Rise."
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