Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 38, 15 September 1892, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

[from oub own cobbespondent.] That Enabling Bill, the Wanganui Harbor Board Association has been so anxious to see before the House, has passed its first reading. When it has become law ; who will then be able to talk about " barren session. " ? I hear that all the members of the above named association are summoned to meet at Colyton next Saturday. Some important business is to be got through on that occasion. The forty and four members should be there. Coming events cast their shadows before. The Small Farm Associations, one by one, politely, but firmly, reminded by the Commissioner of Lands that their Macawber-like tendencies must receive a check, and that unless those who have been waiting for something more favourable to turn up, sign their papers within 14 days from September 9th, they will be struck off the roll. This intimation is addressed now specially to the Pohangina Association. The Delaware has already been reminded. This is preparatory to drawing. The Commissioner informs the secretary that his surveyors are now engaged in plotting off the sections, and that orders to assemble for the ballot, will follow almost immediately on the completion of the fourteenth day of grace. Some one has blundered as only one polling place is gazetted for the Pohangina Road Board. The " Star " says :— " Sept. 20 is the day, and Feilding the place for the election " |pd it is therefore as fixed and unaltered at the laws of the Medis and Persions. Fortunately there will be no election necessary at this end of the Board district. If there had been, I'm afraid that a ride of 25 miles at the call of duty would not have met with such a cheerful response as from those who staid " not to reason why, though the men knew, someone had blundered. "