Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 66, 1 December 1891, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

T*?^ \rß6kpVi OWN^COBMESPdNDENT.'] ■■•' ; A£ V(B are lintimabßlyrconnected with ;: taken much in- - il *|isi^ : inV&^K^rajS6&- m^femeDt, and are glad to notice that at the last meeting ' Lucas i^ip^'aHitt^sti^piatdl^ecessaiT papers /^Kad^lMed'preparedil and more than the ; . -ui^tdsitejnumberspf signatures obtained. >>iTKe;iPot^pgma;Wirdeia '..Has taken aprd- * 'in ; ' bringing the affair to a head, for he could see it would he for the .advancement of our district, -if it managed • b-wn'affairsv theimpetus given to settlement by the present Small Farm Eegulations las to taking up land, the - reading of the -Pohangina will become of imperative necessity, and we are more i-likelyto obtain what we want by having 1 ;•: ':. T..;, " :-||4ertraiß oye#2op applications for 200 : eachi;to i\be- "allotted to them in this 1" Pohangina ■couintry/ '-The traffic will be pretty heavy next year, and we must either ' . tayibi roedaor a sea of mud. K 200 settlers pull to-gether, they needn't have . Cq-operatwn pught to " :^c^nnnue«i ! '^!ter the land is^allptted, : it to'fobal iand other requirements. •'■•'■.' I have heard that some very expensive - t:>Tirork-haß;beenidone up: theGroua to endwivour to protect the banks., The cheapest and Bimpleßt plan I haye seen is that '' 'being earned oiit by the railway department to protect their embankmeut here. Just simple %ilow faggots bound round ■'■ with a piece of wire. Willow stakes are .__ dnyenw, about 10 feet frqm_the banks runs from, this to the faggot. They are laid in at an. angle of 45 degrees, and a iron xans along about half Wjiy doi^n.ftndis' bound in with the wire . - cs fiwm v ?;ihe{<ip''stake, : Some of this was done about four months ago, and the green shoots look -very nice above the friSßater^linej; which below is a network of rooja as thick as tho "knotted and com- , brbed locks" of any unkempt head. It makes a Bplendid oteakwater and gets as the Toots increase, and is "" iftiTT simple i and very effective. :s&»irep6rt of the Wanganui Education -"■••' Board in re " Ashurst and Pohangina" makes? yery' interesting reading to the householders. There has been a considerable Btir over the action of these two school committees for taking on themBelvra to say to the teachers who are doing; their duty—" Go !" The report of the meeting shows that the Board are :' perfectly satisfied if their teachers do - their duty and get their children on. The Inspectors' report shows in the cases • under -consideration that a good result ; was'given and also that the tone of the Bchobla were good. There are other places - beside Ashurst and Pohangina where there «-; trouble between the committee ;, and the Board's teachers. If the teachers 'lare'doing their duty they should be let ' alone. If they are not doing their duty, ~ then is the time for the committee to ■' ' apeak, and the householders will go with them; but in these two cases there was . : BO.RTOmHr for complaint, theteforothe householders did not agree with the com- ; mittees, and they are very glad to see the '"' B^aiyteitupbh'them.