Harbor Block Chips

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 120, 7 April 1892, Page 2

Harbor Block Chips

[from our own correspondent. ] A war of extermination is being waged by some person unknown on the settler's clogs here. Already some five or six valuable dogs have unaccountably disappeared, and, like the remains of Moses, no man seems to know whether they are hidden. I must say while sympathising heartily with those sheep owners whose properties are infested by strange dogs, that to wantonly destroy perfectly harmless and useful dogs belonging to their neighbours is both mean and criminal. A great deal of complaint is made about the utterly neglected state of of the Zig Zag road connecting Pollock's and the Awa road. There is a good deal of traffic at present on this section of road, a number of settlers being engaged packing seed and wire up to their new burns. The road itself is scarcely passable for horse traffic being almost entirely overgrown with miko miko and scrub of all kinds. The bush is very dense, and for days after a heavy rain one cannot pass along the road without getting wet to the skin by contact with the undergrowth. It is a great pity that the Engineer and Warden don't happen to pass this way after a heavy downpour, in which case they would probably conclude that there was some necessity to cut the scrub down and generally improve this bit of road.