Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 15, 4 August 1891, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

The grass seems to be getting a bit scarce now, both old and new pasture, owing to the severe frosts we have had. But the recent change to warm damp weather has done some good, and there is a little growth. The orchards about here are showing great signs of spring approaching, for ihe peach blossoms are already beginning to make a show of bursting out. A lot of. my neighbours are planting a considerable area of land with potatoes, besides other small seeds. Altogether great energy is being shown in gardening. I am glad to notice that the Board is putting three hundred yards of metal on the bad places on the Pohangina road. This will be the cause of much benefit to travellers as well as residents,

There is a tremendous lot of bush being felled here, both in the Awahou and Harbor Board Blocks, hundreds of acres are being knocked down. While numerous building's are being erected on the river flats.

The number of accidents in this district, within the last three months, is somewhat startling. Two men, thrown from horses, broke their collar bones ; one man fell from his trap and broke his arm ; and another did the same thing by falling from his horse, and yet another broke his leg iv the same way. A falling tree fractured the leg of a bush man, while a tram aucidnnt smashed another in the same w?vy. Lately a mini was thrown from his horse and injured his ankle. However, th«y Are all doing well. We hear odda and ends about the Mauris ci'.'umg to settle at Stoney Crook, just above us, but do not beliuve the Government to be such muddle-headed fools aa to throw away such good laud iorautUiag.

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