Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 July 1893, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

.». . [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The measles bare played havoc with school attendance during the last month. One day there were only 95 children at school. Number on school roll 228, 109 boys and 419 girls. Mr R. J. Whibley will be glad to receive names of farmers who read in your paper that a Farmers' Club is about to be started in our town* A meeting of those interested in forming the club will be held in the Foresters' Hall, Ashurst, on July 31st. The advantages of meeting for the inter* change of ideas are so obvious, that it is hoped all will help the hoary-headed to give his experience to the younger farmers, and they to hear. The Engineer is about to put in large culverts at the junction of roads in the town. There does not appear to be any appreciable difference in the rainfall yet, as a consequence of the Government throwing open the Forest Reserves about our town for settlement. Mr Myers, of the Valley Road, has lost two sheep and a-half by the land. slips. They got stuck in the mudtwo dead, the other lost the use of his legs. Messrs Riminer & Craven have let both the shops in front of the Dramatic Hall ; and also the large room overhead. Our new buildings are taken up as soon as ready. A string band is the latest eyent here. Mr Isherwood, the well-known musician at Falmerston, is engaged to come one night a week to act as instructor. Thirteen members is good for a start. The triangle square, fronting the Dramatic Hall, and Mr Freeman's land agency, is being very much improved, and will soon vie with Manchester Square, Feilding, in its attractions. The front of the Masonic Hotel is being levelled and gravelled. Altogether, this end of the town is bidding fair to be the Belgravia of Ashurat. Mr W. Crichton, the successful competitor for the Palmerstoh Courthouse plans, is the son of Mr J. Crichton, of Ashurst, and formerly of Feilding. '