Ashurst Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 150, 8 June 1893, Page 2

Ashurst Notes

".": .'. i •, («»' -^ -t f it.: > •■- r?* "' .fj-iT'i* [FBOtt OUK OWN CO«BBSPO*iWNt.3 ** Mr F. Retemeyer's. thoroughbred st»l» lion, Papa-pa, has tome to 'amuntimely end. A gelding broke into, hi* paddock, and during the fight which' ensued, Pa« papa'a leg was broken, and he had to be shot. ...... „ ;,- , / A petition is being signed to endeavour to get the Education Board tq .erect « school on the east side oE the PohaDgina Awahon Block. . . , . ,' A Tb c school at Pohangina has a 'roll of 46 scholars with an average attendance of 85. Families are arriving whose child* , ren of school age will increase 'the number, and make extra accommodation obsoluteiy necessary, the ro^m is over, crowded now. < It . will surely . b* better for the Board to increase the ac'cbmmocta* tion at the present scobol afad have a 1 pupii teacher under our efficient" head i master, Mr Woodham.then have two aided schools— one ■on either I *\A4 of tHtf ; river— with possibly an inexperienced teacher in each. :/ > A strong petition is being'signetl against ' granting a license for an hotel in the Pohangina. Being co near our town, where there is ample accommodation for the travelling public, a hotel atJPohangina is considered by many of the residents as unnecessary. At a public meeting held here two residents were chosen as suitable ptrmns , for the honourable office of Justice ophe Peace, viz : Messrs Simmer and Bumble No policeman stationed here now. Larrikins are taking advantage, and annoy residents considerably.