Overview
Thurs Jan 28
Rode up to North Block + contined cutting scrub on hilltop north of Ohau Summit (* plan 23rd inst[ant]). A fearfully hot day + had to take spells in shade every few minutes, the sweat rolling off in streams + fairly gasping for breath. Only cut a small patch though the scrub was good cutting. Made a blaze along to Grange's job. Fired heap alongside sheepyards + the rata stump inside. Found the diseased steer, the "potty red" (£3.7.0) lot, dead in Mill p[addock]. Mr. Tress came down in evening - I bathed + worked at "sawdust swamp" drain.