Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 67, 24 November 1892, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

[from a special cobbespondent.] The Pohangina School Committee met on Saturday last, and arranged matters i about a picnic for the children before breakine up the school, arid it was re solved that Mrs Durling and Mrs Khlein should be authorised to spend the bal« a nee of the prize money left from last year, and whit more could be collected, in amusements for the children on break - | ing-up day, and that they be held on the school "house reserve. I Shearing is now in full swing, but the clip is unsatisfactory, being light in some cases. The fruit crop dops not promise to be plentiful this season, as regards apples, cherries, and gooseberries, but there will be good returns of stone fruits such as plums and peaches. Owing to the immense quantity of bush which has been felled, we expect tho fires will be on an extensive scale. Mr Letters had a large piece felled on the Awahou Block; Rood work, every., thing down, and with a favourable wind ihe fire will sweep it as clean as a dinner plate. The soil is of the best quality, while the country is not very rough, although at a distance it is not very promising, but when you get on it at is surprising what beautiful grass grows there. There will soon be a talk about road making in this district although the people don't like haying to pay so much for the Engineering as ten per cent, but that will all come out in the wash by and bye. There is already some talk of haymakI ing and the splendid crops of grass promise a good return, In some places the settlers are talking about soiling off their I sheep and getting things ready for the dairy, There is likely to be a creamery started in the valley of the Pohangina at the end of the present or the beginning of next year, which ought to do a lot of good here. Dairy cows are travelling up here after every auction sale. Some far mers have already got 30 and 40 cows while others are gradually creeping up to them in their herd 9. All good for trade. I consider the Pohangina one of the best places in the Colony for dairying purposes. There was a large number of cattle came this way after Messrs F. R. ! Jackson and Co.'s last stock sale at Pal- | merston North. They will soon have to | establish sale yards here as the distances from Feilding or Palmerston are too great for settlers or buyers to drive stock there and back. When they hold sales here it will be a boon to the settlers and a profit to the auctioneers.