South Molyneux Notes.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 85, 24 February 1876, Page 6

South Molyneux Notes.

; '■' Hazel' Del .farmjas 'situated,; at tiie Puerua Fldt,ai?d i's'fh'e : property of Mr W.; Allison, ..We were shewn... ; hazel bushes ;; coverecT with nuts, fine apple and pear trees:; the- £rst-mentioned : •■loaded with '-.fruit:: ' -A "splendid' hedge of Spanish broom^ having hardly a leaf,; and bearing all, its t 'flpwe>s on the top 1 -branches. The land, isa calcarebusclay, very friable arid warm', and "] /thoroughly suitable ; for- the ; production of wheat. ">Ve \ learn,;that 3000, acres, of .'this lat was surveyed by ;Gbyernmeht: some time •si-hce for'settlement'; purposes, : but : . ; .-fp;rT gpijten- to; -be 'jetted. ''■ This; block would have" paid" the .country ..much bettqr in the. hands of twelve farmers at .'250 acres ,each ;for- the jast five or. six' years, than being occupied as a "sheepwalk 1 , carry ing- at. .the. most 150.0 sheep, .whose revenue has not paid more than. -ten 1 per cent per year, or £150 into the public' purse. > ... „ V. The farmers in the neighborhood. of, Puerua Flat req^iirea school very badly; as they' find it; top; 'great a distance' to ; send .their. children to the Waitepeka' or the Puerua schools. : The n umber of children without instru'etibri. iat ' the Puerua; Flat are . seventeen, s belonging , to four families. Near there are two : children of .Mr' Dobson, a settler, who go: to the Waitepeka school. . . About a mile from this place Mr Morton -lives, and contributes a number more to the Waitepeka school ; altogether, the neighborhood can : muster <- within a radius, of two; miles, sp'me f forty children/ out of which seventeen : are without, any instruction^ owing;* 1 to distance. ■'• A school -built' on the flat behind, the' Pre'sb^.terian Manse, near where) the old: Government /School reserve-^ was situated 'wonid confer a great "boon on/the' settlers and. further the great work of ■education.' / V ...... '■\ :: "•'-'* ■■'■> ■'"•-'

;;' : is manifested ,in the^ hotel;-; of Mr -David Why tock, r at Puprua, ! ;i'a accpmmpdßtipn, &c. ; , "while the store of- Mr William Via. well pa.trpnise'd.- ; . '. ; ' -' •. ,

' ;The' residence?, of. Mr Willmm'Mbr-' '•top-i and Messrs Simpson and Watt ai?e ■ .b^atitifullj '. ■. A r fine patch- 1 of bushjextends a!6ngr ; tne back which : .iias J been advantage of^to f plant fruit. trees ..b£ : ; different, .^in'd's, . mingled;with ; 'flowers, . pines,!: accaciasj ./gum's, ■"- and; ; ;English: ; timb.ersi / ; We 'noticed : one' spmus- insig-nus at, ; ]ffr. :: Morton's, only : eig«ht -years-old,, for.ty feeVliio-'hViand' .having atr ; uiik' ten 'inches ; ; ih diameter aii the ground;^ 'Thisjis the largest; tree. of its age" and • kind we have' seen Am .Cjtago. ; ' Siinpsdri,"ap.cl . Watt have, tlire'e 'fine orchards,:. containing'.' large, 'quan- "'. ,titie,s -of fruit', of which, the great' pro- Iportion is lost "every .season,,.; .We may-siig-gest; thai swine are iveryrifond^of- ' fallen fruit, and that it. is th'e^ custom^inpp^s pfiCanada ; an'd.,tlie! .States'tp^Bve': :pigs into -• their Orchards -to eat -the /alien .fruit after 'ilis ; season's' ci6p ;is,, f.byer., .; .We, ; raig-ht .alsoTstate tliatthe'.' rapple crop is divided'into lourtgectibns, 1 .jßjir'si," t the '.eating';, .fruit.'; second,- ;t'hecider,fruit; third,- dried < fruit ; '. ~ : and4as<f.■thefr^it;;usQd;fo,r;jfe^ niakin'o' r a.ia f ingredient ,iri t mashes/,, &c.- The ea'tl ing*. fruit 1 is' barrelled up and .carted iofc ' ;oe- thirty /miles to; market; and 1 "sbld" '.at- fiye ..■'• shillings j a.bar.re]j : |,w s hioh;. : . p'ays;a : Canadian ifarmer,^ whor empties :;h:is\Wagg6n^talres^in ; \h'is^tVa^ ;and tea,- and ;tbe loose .dollars;-, and gcsts' ib'ack- to ! the farm ; aV soon as he can; for'another load.^^Take^tnis; l par£ J o'f; ithe a|pple season through^ a ,farmer.< reckons: | ■himself :fortunat^;if •bus'frels,./ equal a^^ye; shillings, r and clear two shillings •i-.on-i "each^wHic^/^Ulii/be! £33 s ,Bsrv^, )Cider fruit- pays. him L perhaps MsM&. se^. son', ; and \ the 'dried':; fruit" returns him' j frbjn^icl tQ $d J^pbunclvy ! i^\!tHbrHe i§f = no4aborto.-make .these processesideaii',/ everything^ being- d6n,e : '6n' : -tke/'-])^tsylß-Q , tern; : ori,,neigfi.Bpr ..help oieigh^b^iiri|j; ; faVmers'find.tt'a profitable help to ''lbbfe to^'^ifeirf:app]e;jcrops'; ■ I 'oi^ l heWifr^:Jar^ ; rael fCure^-^OOilbsof .dr^islapples^K t% A m, or r£l2; : ' 1 (js:^ say;- he^old; tf ap^le^f^^ an d r made .cicjer' wbrthi£i(s i;. * and lielpe(£ M,f .^Rigs^tp fif 6 »pp : iindsJ^elg i ht J -ea'Qh ? . bea^t witlr .the;; rfemami^,^ '^l^Ste ■HftvinK |^twenty•^'<pigß^^t' ; ■>sd^k^pb > im^;•