Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 7, 2 July 1889, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

[FROM OTTO OWJf CORRESPONDENT. J Bain, rain daily for the last three weeks, and slop, slop all outside in consequence;: Good for, the grass, young and ol&f the frosts were cutting up the newly sown, graas and the late rains will give it a chance to take firm root. ' ; The town also continues to improve. We now sport a barber at intervals. An opposition blacksmith set up,' but I hear "hasT'beeGffiG -fficorpprated' with the . established one. Last, but noVleasi, perhaps, one of our local butchers is a thorough going teetotaler and has, by his action anent the Licensing Committee, „ ruffled somebody's feathers, and an opposition butcher is to appear. . The people up the river ar*e at last to have a school built, and not before it is needed, yet it seems a little strange that they cannot secure a freehold site for it; but a little v^r- a fiQm the!'-' present. Bcbool two school masters own large sections, but neither has come forward with an offer of a couple acres for school purposes ; one would have thought they mighb have done that much for the cause , that gives them bread.