Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 108, 10 March 1892, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

« (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Money is being raised to procure prizes to be distributed at Easter to the Pohangina children. The schoolroom is hardly large enough now, and the committee are shortly going to try to increase the at* tendance. The number of scholars at the Spur road school is 25. The two acres of ground lately acquired by the Education Board is being fenced in. The timber is now on the ground for the school master's residence, supplied by Mr Adsett,. of the Feilding road. There is a large number of acres of bush to burn yet on the Forton Block, On the average the burns hare not been good this year. The early sown grass isright this season. I gather a chip from: your Harbour Board notes, which says : — " Spw grass seed as soon as the ashes cool." I believe he is quite right. Mr Harry Tremewan is a contended looking man—and he should be— he is dwelling under the shadow of his own vine and fig tree, and his family around him. What more does a man want? He told me that he bad already gathered one crop of figs— beauties — and another crop half ripe. He has also the largest walnut tree I hare seen out here, and a fine crop of walnuts— good eating they are. Altogether, his garden tells of the man better than I can — industry, neatness, and management. There is a meeting of the Harbor Board Small Farm Association on S&tav* day next, at 3 o'clock at the Colyton Hall, to receive Mr Lucas' report of in» terview with the Waste Lands Board and( the Premier, re above. There is quite a rush for the remaining sections in Ashurst town reopened tor sale on March 1, Some of the old original houses are being sold also, and very easy terms the company are giving. There being 131 entries for 9 events out of a programme of 17, seems to presage a good day for Ashurst on St. Patnek's festival. We had good fields last year, and not nearly so many entries. A great thing in our favor is, that there is no public merry-making in Palmerston on that day—they tned it last year, torun their sports on the same day we did, but it was no go, they've had to give inThe attractions offered by our young andi rising town, and splendid scenery, are' greater than Palmeratoa cau give — see theresult! Our brass band will, in all ja&lakility surpass even its ordinary self om Sb Pat> rick's Day. The conductor's batSn & weilded by a vigorous hand, and enforces? that correct time which all lovers oft" music delight to hear. You should see our business street now.The footpaths are finished— the metal for the purpose has been brought from the river bed, very clean and very hard. The roadman is now engaged in cleaning out the watertables so that people with tender feet and ladies with kid boots can walk without fear of disturbing the stones. Mr Lucas when in Wellington stepped into the Survey Office to ask about the surveying of the Salisbury Block (S.F.A.) The Surveyor-General informed him it would be finished about June, and that thefurveyornowon the ground is ordered! to survey the road as far as will allow him to lay o2 this block of 11,000 acres, that it may be done in time for bushfelling. Mr James, who has lately started tent and sail making (he's an old hand though) has just completed a large marquee for use on St Patrick's Day.