Ashuist Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 115, 18 March 1893, Page 3

Ashuist Notes

(FROM OUR OWJf CORRESPONDENT. J The Pohangina Farm Homestead Association, No. 1, is to meet at Colyton Hall, near Feilding, on Thursday, March 23, for the purpose of balloting for sections. The Commissioner will attend in propria 2>ersona. lam informed that the surveyors will receive orders to put in the sectionpegs soon after the balloting. This block is on the north side of the Salisbury, from which it is divided by Coal Creek. The Oroua river, on the upper boundary, runs between it and the Uinutoi Farm Homestead Association. There are nine sections fronting the Oroua river. The south branch of the Oroua runs into the main stream at the poiut of sections 1 and 2, near the eastern boundary. This eastern portion is nearest the lulls, and is cut into 320 nero sections. The soil is good, but surface rough. The Table Flat road, 114 chains from the metalled road near Apiti, runs through the middle of the block from the western boundary, and so down into the Salisbury Block. There is a considerable amount of limestone in that part of the country ; also a very curious natural bridge. It is supposed that the Umntoi Block will be soon ballotted for. I understand that the ground is more broken on the further sido of the river, being near the foot of the range. These two associations have the advantage of being nearer the metnlled road by several miles than the Salisbury. So that if some of the ground is more broken the members can " lay this flattering unction to their souls "—that they will not have so many miles of muddy tracks as others. At the present restricted power of Road Board borrowing — under the Loans to Local Bodies Act, of i.'3,000 a year— it will be a long time before such a large extent of new country is roaded. The Small Farm Associations of the district represent many votes, and, with these, must get their roads made. A successful sale was held at Ashurst on Wednesday, at the Farmers' Alliance sale yards. The auctioneer, Mr It. B. McKenzie, gave notice that snles wonld be held monthly if necessary. Killing prices were made. Mr Ward ha 3 sold a section for iIOO, opposite the hotel. There is a good deal of purchasing going on at present in town sections. Eight buildings are in course of erection. Mr James, an architect of Paimerston, has purchased the Ashurst Dramatic Club Hall, and has let a contract for converting it into four shops. Three are let already. mmmm^^ mmm mmm^m^m '