Apiti Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 21, 6 August 1892, Page 2

Apiti Notes

(from our own correspondent.) It is now three years ago since Mr Marsh went into the Apiti Block. As settlement progressed the necessity for a post office was forced on the residents, who sent a petition, for a local post office to he opened, to the Department signed by forty-six persons. The prayer of the petitioners was granted and Mr Marsh was appointed postmaster. Last April Mr Marsh having disposed of his farm, and shifted to another part of the district, the settlers determined to give to Mrs Marsh some recognition of her invar able courtesy and attention. There was a subscription made and a sufficient amount raised to purchase a handsome silver cruet stand which was duly presented last Tuesday, Mr H. Osborne is the new postmaster and has already established a favourable reputation by his obliging disposition. The contract taken by Mr W. F. March for felling and making a bridle track on London's road to Coal Creek, has been completed to the entire satisfaction of the authorities. In this connection we may mention that there was a gap of about 60 or 70 chains in the line of London's road between the river and the Oroua Valley road which the settlers themselves have completed so far as to make it passable to get in their provisions, and some of them think it is time some of the thirds were spent in roadmakiog in that part of the Birmingham Small Farm Block.