Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 19, 2 August 1892, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

[from our own correspondent, j I There has beea a yery successful meeting of those intending to guarantee cows for the dairy factory, Mr Chester, the principal, met them in the Dramatic Hall on Wednesday evening. Three hundred and twenty- four cows were guaranteed, and many more promised. The factory will, it is supposed, be ready for work on January Ist. Next to the steady income that has been derived from our totara since Ashurat saw the light, nothing has been started that bids fair to be so remunerative to the small farmers in the yieinity as this dairy factory. Most of our farmers have been unfortunate this season in wintering their flocks. This makes them all the more eager to put some of their eggs in auother basket, and go to the market with them every day. They will soon be able to test the wonderful power of cash. Mr Reeve, master of the Pohangina school, is about to leave the district for Pahiatua. The Pohangina, educationally speaking, was quite in chrysalis form when Mr Reeve first pitched his tent there. It has now emerged from its priimtiveness and a good residence and commodious school await his successor. Pareuts speak well of Mr Reeve's method of teaching. He will carry the good wishes of the neighbourhood with him. The Forty Mile Bush Small Farm settiers about Makuri and Ooonoor are in a protty pickle. Mr Cowen has just come from there to pick up a horse for packing. The packers haye been charging 10$ per cwt for taking up stores, etc.. and such is the state of mud that they are going to clap on another 2/6. The late Mr Macarthur in a speach at Ashurst advocated '* roads before settlement." That pohev was carried out on the Manchester Block, and when the system of occupation without present payment of rent came m force the land was positively rushed, thus showing in what estimation the policy of " roads before settlement " was held, even though settlers have to pay dearer for the land.