Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 110, 15 March 1892, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

[from our own correspondent. [ Now that the Pohangina and Mana* watu are both low it would be well if the attention of our local body was called to those heaps of logs lying at the foot of the Gorge bridge. No. 6 Ward is interested in the welfare of this bridge. All the piers but two and one dolphin have this accumulation before them, which could easily be removed before the river rises, when another lot may be brought down. We are expecting a great crowd on St. Patrick's Day, and may haye to adjourn to the racecourse to accommodate the people. The track there is getting into splendid order : the grass sown a little before the races hae now formed quite a decent turf and covers the nakedness of the soil. Ashurst is still advancing; two new houses are occupied this week and all the < old ones are sold and nearly all the sec* tions. The few that had bush on are being cleared. Some sections are likely to change hands again pretty soon. We have quite a boom on. Mr E. Hopkins has a splendid young orchard coming on, in fact in all orchards of the Pohangina there is ample proof that the valley is adapted to fruit growing. Mr L. Killick, who is residing in Pohangina has been for many years a member of the Boyal Horticultural Society of England, and is partictlarly well read in apple lore. He speaks of the fine climate of our part, and thinks apple growing will be a great industry here soon. - L / The contract for Whibley's road is let to Mr Pringle. Last week Durham street was metalled. These are jjroofe that our warden is looking after our inter* ests as he said he would. Even the creeks 1 adjoining standing bush are getting dry. This tells us we should conserve our water. There is plenty of it in the winter. As a rule there is some undulating ground on each section. Very easy to erect a dam in some of the gullies. When the bush is all down scientists say that our rainfall will be less. The Spur road school residence cannot be commenced yet, as the timber is too green. The Spur road people have been induced to get on with their burning this last week. Quite a number of those eyesores to bush farmers, unburnt patches, haye been cleared up during these hot days and splendid winds, which alters the appearance of the road very much. There is to be an entertainment in the Dramatic Hall on the eve of St. Patrick's day. Our local amateurs are practising most assiduously to be ready with their parts on the occasion.