Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 125, 27 April 1889, Page 3

Pohangina Notes

'Passing by some sections on the Endowment Block I noticed vast improvements on several of the sections effected lately. I started on the Pohangina road, which is now well metalled where formerly it was axle deep in mud. The natural result is that every settler has gone in for vehicle traffic, which enables him to send the female members of his family to make their purchases in Feilding, instead of a day being lost by the head of the family having to go. Mr Watson, of Palmerston North, is putting down a cement sheep dip, and is also building some fine yards and a substantial woolshed, which are to be coin- " pleted at once. Messrs Burling and Holt are working on No. 1 contract under some disadvantages, as the bridge on that line of road was washed away by the flood last year. ,r They have, however, a small bridge which will enable them to push on their work. On the Valley road the surfacemen are trimming up the highway for the winter rains. Among other improvements Mr Streeter has put up a timber sheep dip on Ms farm. Mr' Durling is also adding to the value of his property by judicious additions, among which I noticed a very nice four-roomed house. There is a splendid garden at the back of the dwelling, full of well cho3en fruit trees all of the most vigorous growth. Everybody about here is sheepfarming, and if I may judge from the appearance of the sheep, they are likely to be well rewarded, for no stock could look better or thrive better than they do in our district. Mr Porter has built a grand house on his Bection, while Mr Currin has put up three dwellings. We have been having delightful weather, and now would be well pleased to see a good drenching rain to freshen up the feed a bit.