Apiti Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 129, 20 April 1893, Page 2

Apiti Notes

[FBOM OUB OWN CUBBKBPONDEKT.] The settlers up this way have been thinking for some time that they would be able to get in and ont of the block in the winter when they got the Ordua Valley road metalled bat, according to present appearances, they will have a bad i time of it this winter, if they are able to get in or out at all, for the contractors appear to be taking all the batter off. "Where they have to widen the road they take it oat from the bottom and . never touch the top. For the last three years i it has required the roadman working on the catting 9 the most of his time to keep i the roads open at all. It will require two or three now to clear the slips away. One portion of the metal they are putting on this side is nothing but sand with a few stones thrown in. They have started to bring in the timber for Mr B. Poole's hotel, and he has a man on clearing the site. Mr J. Meehan has his timber in and the site prepared. Mr. Clapham's house is being rapidly pushed forward. There were some " hoodlums " from Feilding up here shooting at Easter, and they came across some geeae belonging to one of the settlers, shot them for wild ones, and carted them home. It will be as well for them if they keep clear of this part of the district in the future, as they are well-known and might make the acquaintance of Constable Tuohey.