Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 116, 24 March 1891, Page 3

Pohangina Notes

The sawmill has. started work, and though the; cutting has been principally for sheds, whares, and other places about the miil, one or two loads haye been sent away. Two engines drive the mill, together about 20-.horse power. The plan- ' ing machine is not at work yet, and will remain idle until it is- covered in. Mr McDonald, after : staying in the lush for forty hours, came home in the middle of the night on Wednesday. On he disappeared again, and was ; found not. far from his home on Sunday morning. ; During last week the settlers took full advantage of the dry weather, most' of them who had bush down burning it, and some very good burns were the result. Some held on longer trusting to a longer •continuance of the drought. It is to be hoped that the weather will clear up again for a few days more dry so that those why have hot burnt yet may do so. The surveyors are busy at the township, and in a short time will have it in -proper, shape to sell, when I suppose it will beiput in the market.and sold at a good figure. . Mr Rae, of the Foxton Small Farm, has let a contract for the erection of his house, and will shortly move up with his family. ■ -k. ••.-•>■ ■-.. . The Pohangina Schoolhouse is used now on Sundays by the Brethren from Ashurst, and generally they muster a good congregation. , ;' At the present rate of increase the School will soon be too small, as it can only accommodate 40, and the average attendance of scholars of late has been about 30 in fine weather.