HAWEA FLAT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1125, 23 November 1883, Page 3

HAWEA FLAT.

(From a Correspondent.) November 19th, 1883. The farmers are pretty well through with their work ; the majority of them are late with their sowing this year, having made up their minds to give late sowing a trial. 1 pleased to bo able to chronicle that the , crops are looking very well, especially those '.Sown in the autumn ; and taking it altogether, the season has been a very favourable one so far. The principal crop this year is wheat, and judging from appearances just now 1 think our local miller will ; have no cause to complain for want of sufficient grain. i There has been a good deal of ro-ul work carried on here during the spring under the j Roads Construction but I fear we also | have our drawbacks in connection with I them. In the first place the contractors j were allowed to take gravel alongside the ( road they were making,and the consequence is that there are two or three very danger- , mis gravel pits on the roadside It will be I very strange if someone does not come to grief in them before long. Another remarkable fact is that a great portion of the road is oeing constructed where it will not be Used for a long time, and the place where the traffic is passing over every day is left undone. Now I maintain that the road from the Schoolhouse to Dowling’s Hotel should be constructed, instead of gravelling . out on a wide flat where draymen have plenty of room to pick roads where they like. We have been granted a Recreation Reserve or Domain, under the Domain Act, hereafter to be called the Hawea Domain Board. The following are the names of the Trustees : Thomas F. Frewer, John McCarthy, Donald A 1 ‘Lennan, Mungo Allison, Donald M‘Lean, John Fox. Columb Dalton, so that it is very likely we will be starting a Jockey Club sometime next year. We are at a great inconvenience here for want of a bi-weekly mail. The matter has been brought before the Chief Postmaster, and we have his promise that he would attend to our request when tenders would be called for carrying mails to their various destinations. Nevertheless tenders have been called, and I see we have to be content with one mail yet. I think a petition ought to he suit to headquarters on the subject. The Good Templars are on the incr ease 1 hear, notwithstanding that a few of its members have severed from the track they ought to follow, I think the billygoat must have given them a rough ride at their initiation. The settlers here have gone to a great deal of trouble getting a Hundred proclaimed, and now that it is granted they have let it lay dormant for a long time. The consequence is that it is completely overrun with sheep and cattle, I hear, from all quarters. Surely it is worth looking after. I think I have touched on everything that is of public interest for the present. Should anything of importance Joecur I will let you know. It has rained all through to-day, and everything is looking quite fresh. Our school still increases in attendance, and I am happy to be in a po ition to inform you that there are a few settlers coming to live amongst us that are likely to increase the population of our “Babies on the Block”—one frmi Makarora, and the other from Half-Way, between this place and Cromwell.