Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 97, 13 February 1892, Page 3

Ashurst Notes

-♦ (from our own correspondent.) There are several members of the Pohaugina Small Farm Association living in or near Feildmg, and they will be glad to learn that the Minister of Lands has approved the application for this block (No 3) and that he has issued directions to have it surveyed at once, also that the Chief Surveyor will forward a plan show ■ ing the sections as soon as ho is in a position to do so, so that the members may ballot for the land as soon as possible. There are three teams of bullocks, 52 horses, 9 waggons, and 47 men engaged at three sawmills of Ashurst. A nice little bill is run up every month. One cause of the continued prosperity of our town or district. A short lime ago a correspondout of jours wrote on the subject of Small Farm Associations, and in the course of his letter said " he did not wish to cast any reflection ou the promoters of Associations but " somehow or other they always got tho best sections." Exactly the same lino of reasoning- pursued by his great antitype, Mark Antony, who, while speaking over the dead body of Caesar said, of Brutus and the others " They are all honorable men " while at the same time ho meant to turn public .opiuion against thpm. Permit me to explain the simple plan to be adopted by the associations in tho Pohangina valley. Every member is present. The sections on tho map will be nuinbereclfroin No 1 upwards, the name of each applicant is written on a ticket, or if two wish to draw together, two names on. one ticket— no number on the tickets. These are put into an opaque covered jar, and drawn out one by ono by some disinterested party. The first name down out takes No 1 section— if the ticket has two names on it, they take No 1 and 2 and so on. By this simple method all the apparent difficulty of your correspondent should vanish, aud he must admit that the promoter of the Association stands exactly the same chance as any other member. r ; At the public meeting held in Ashurst on the question of removing the Gorge bridge, etc. Mr Reeve stated the case very clearly, showing how Ashurst or rather No 6 Ward, stood in the matter. Replying to other questions as to how the money was spent in our ward, he said that lie always had Ashurst requirements before him, and that he would have tbe town roads formed as soon as possible. Wo can sco by the works now authorised for Ashurst that the town has come rouud again.