Pemberton Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 139, 13 May 1893, Page 2

Pemberton Notes.

f FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, j Judging by the strides of progress that Pemberton and district have made during die lnst few months, it bids fair to become i\ place of some importance in the near future. Probably iv no district in the North Island is there greater settlement going on, and the present winter will undoubtedly be a busy one, judging by the amonnt of bushfelling and roadwork to be done. Some twenty-five men arrived here the other day from Wellington, in charge of Mr Mackey, of the Government Labor Bureau, and were conveyed to Waireraka clearing to fell busb, and make roads, in the abandoned site (1500 acres) of the proposed State Farm. Captain Turner, Government road engineer, is at present engaged in marking off the reads. The work is to be let by contract, each gang of five men taking a separate contract which is to be balloted for. It is expected that 600 acres of bush will be felled this winter, at the terminus of which the land will be balloted for in lots of 50 acres each. Those who, are unsuccessful in securing a piece of land this year will have a chance in the remaining portion which, it is proposed, will be ballotted for next year. The work of felling is to be let at the prices ruling in this district. The men, on the whole, appear to be a steady lot, and should in time become first-class settlers. The Government surveyors are busy at work preparing lines, etc., to enable the settlers of the Marlon Small Farm Association to get on their land this winter. It is expected that the work will be sufficiently far advanced to allow of the settlers starting operations at the end of this, or during next, month. No. 1 is already completed and it only awaits the result of the drawing to allow of the work of settlement being proceeded with. A meeting is called for nest Saturday night at the school house, for the purpose of starting a public library, which is an institution much needed in these parts. It is to be hoped the project will meet with the success it deserves. PrJngle k Richardson, coach proprietors, have started a tri- weekly service to. Pemberton, running on opposite days to Mr Sam Daw's bus, thus making a daily service to Pemberton. Both coaches make the Pemberton Hotel their terminus. Several new residences are being erected, suudry marriages are taking place, our population in daily increasing, and things generally bear the appearance of rapid progression.