Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 92, 27 January 1891, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

(■FROM OTTJR O"WN COERESPOSXffiIiIO^.--Now that the holidays are over, I have been able fo have a look round, this district and chronicle the progress being made. There is a store about to be erected on Pohangina Main road, situated in Mr Hunt's section on the top of Horse-shoe Hill. I believe the proprietor is an old resident in Campbelltown. Mr Gorpe's new sawmill will soon be in full work. A very good site has been chosen, with abundance of water handy, with a supply of splendid timber, which it will take years of continuous work to exhaust. v The- fruit crop is not so plentiful this season, but some orchards have a good show, and many of- the more productive kinds of apples are so heavily laden asjto break down the branches in spite of the supports which have been placed under them. .The potatoe crop is magnificent, and the- same may be said of the grass seed, but the latter has not received much attention owing to the wet weather having spoiled it more or leps. Bushfelling is carried'on merrily on a number of sections, but.people are talking of getting only bad burns owing to the rains.

„ The Maoris are up here in considerable numbers just now, engaged in the interesting pursuits of. pig hunting and eel catching, and when they are not eating or sleeping they fill up the time in collecting' fungus. Further up the river I observe a vast improvement, and there is every evidence that this will be a thriving settlement. Strangers are flocking up to see the new. land to be sold in the Wanganui Harbor Board Block, and the traffic on .the Valley road is very considerable. There can be no doubt this is the road which will have to bear most of the work, and as a portion of it is no.w very rough, the stone hammer could be applied with advantage, as the large ?harp stones are somewhat dangerous. I feel sure that when our warden, Mr Lucas, comes round again and sees the. state of this road he will try and have it altered, because the travelling public are complaining of what they Consider quite an unnecessary danger to^'their horses feet. There is only about half a mile of road Wants doing. There, is a part of a side cutting iroin the upper side of which large stones and gravel are continually rolling down on to the road beneath, to the terror of passers-by. There is also a totara tree on the watertable side which is very unsafe and therefore should be removed. One accident has occurred when a vehicle was upset and the occupants distributed about the gully. Fortunately no one was hurt, but the vehicle was ruined. Pohangina, January 24, 1891.