Ashurst Notes

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

Ashurst Notes

[FllOil OUH OWN COKRESPONDENT. i Mr S. Clere's boarding house was opened . on Saturday. It is a showy building,. two stories high, and a flag-staff at (op of all. Mr Greenhow, of the WatersbsK road, is the architect, and Messrs Rimmer and Craven the bnilders. The upper story contains seven bedrooms ; the lower one a shop, sittingrooni, diningroom, two extra rooms, and the usual offices. With our two hotels and this new accommodation honse, we are ready for the influx of population we are expecting. There will be considerable interest taken in the school committee election this year. The retiring seven are offering themselves for re-election, while another seven are also in the field. Some say that the special requirements of a school committee man are a knowledge of the price of firewood, and the lowest price for cleaning the rooms. The Ashurst folk evidently have a far higher and nobler idea of the position, judging by the interest about to be displayed. Poultry are being killed in large numbers preparatory to the dinner to be given to Mr C. A. W. Hunt, J.P., by his friends at Ashurst, and Pohangina, at the Ashurst Hotel. Many of whom appear to grieye . at his departure for he has been a very good settler for some years, and has taken an interest in every thing on foot and in the shell for the advancement of the district. Mr Greeve, who has bought the farm, is a new-comer in the district. Mr Andrew Porter, of the Valley road, has just sold his farm of 206 acres, to Mr Charles Selby, lately arrived from India. The farm is all in grass, subdivided into six paddocks, and has a four, and also, a ten-roomed house on it. . Mr Porter has since bought some property on the Spur road, where he intends to reside for some time. , The Government intend to fell a chain wide of the Apiti-Norsewood road through the Pohangina Valley Association Blocks, and clear a track of six feet wide. This will commence from the Apiti end, throughthe Pohangina, Salisbury, and Delaware Blocks and so in the direotion of Norsewood, The surveyor's have obtained a comparatively easy grade over the hills at the back of the Delaware Block to descend to the Hawkes Bay side.