Pemberton and Apiti Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 99, 18 February 1892, Page 3

Pemberton and Apiti Notes.

♦■ [from our own correspondent. ! To show the proportions which settlement in the Pe.nberton district is assuming we may state that on Monday last Mr Sam Daw had two four horse brakes and a spring dray, carrying goods and passengers to this place, and all were fully loaded. Mr ThomasTuohey, son of Constable Tuohey, has been busily engaged for the last fortnight in collecting the agricultural statistics in the Feilding Block, Apiti, and Pemberton districts. We hear that he has had several discomforts to put up with resulting from the use of bush tracks for short cuts, etc, incident to travellers in new settlements. The settlers have treated him with uniform kindness whilst in the execution of his duty. The timber has been ordered for the erection of the new school at Pemberton, which will Jbe built on the Education reserve. Satisfactory progress is being made in the room now in use for school purposes under the management of Mr Coventry. During the course of some bush work on Mr Field's section at Pemberton a human skull was discovered, and now lies at Mr Pemberton's ; it is uncertain at present as to whether it is that of a Maori or a European. Mr John Joseph Bryce, son of the Hon John Bryce, bought the goodwill of the lease of the section on the Whare road held by the late Mr Matheson. The price paid was £750. Lamb shearing is now finished in the Feilding Small Farm Block and Apiti. The fleeces have turned out well giving, an average of 41bs each. The first buggy to enter the Feilding Block was driven there on Monday by Mr H. Bilderbeck, who went there with the purpose of choosing a building site on his section on the Main Cross road. It is also rumoured that Mr Bilderbeck intends to erect an accommodation house on his town section adjoining Mr Meehan's 300 acre section. Mr Batchelor, contractor for the State School in the Feilding Small Farm Block, has inspected the site, and the settlers hope.that Mr Batchelor will do his best to get all the material on the ground before the wet weather sets in. Mr A. Dick, of Bunnythorpe, is now engaged making bricks on the section of Mr J. Gould in the Feilding Block. When burned these will supply a large number of the settlers with material for the erection of chimneys, etc. Visitors to Pemberton will now be able to get accommodation at Mr Lay's who has united this bianch of business to that of storekeeping. . Mr Lay is a recent arrival from Sydney, where he has had . considerable business experience. It is .also expected that the post office will be transferred from Mr Pemberton's to Mr Lay's, as the former gentleman intends devoting all his time to farming for the future.