Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 27, 1 August 1893, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

♦ Messrs Adsett & Son are about removing their saw-mill from Awahou (Foxton) Block across the road to the Wanganui Harbor Board Block. There are some very fortunate holders of sections near the Pohangina township who have a splendid lot of totara. I hear that it is very good and sound. Several persons wish to start their buildings on the Pohangina Township, but have to wait for timber. Mr Moseley, from Oroua Bridge, has had his from Victoria Mill, and starts at once. Mr Dunnage, Government Surveyor, has finished putting in the front section pegs in the Delaware Block, on both sides of the Pohangina ; and also the southern portion of the Salisbury Block as far as the Makoura road. Mr Lowes has finished the northern portion, to the boundary of tne Pohaugina Block. There are still Borne ot |the back pegs to put in, yet every settler can commenco work and be quite certain that he is in the right place. Mr Dunnage reports the interior of the block to be the best. The lithograph plans of these blocks are very well got up, the name of every settler being written on his own Boction. Section 143, part 4, of the Land Act, 1892, contains an excellent provision with regard to compulsory residence, it runs thus — " The Board, however, shall have discretionary power to dispense with personal residence on sufficient and satisfactory grounds being shown for nonresidence. " Improvements, however, must be made in accordance with the Act. I am toJd that some members of the Small Farm Association are still under the impression that they need not effect any improvements till the second year. Quite a wrong notion for those who signed the declaration by which they came under the provisions of the Land Act of 1892. It distinctly says therein— improvements the first year. It was the old regulations that gave the option of deferring work till the second year, hence the mistake. The attendance at the school on Friday was yery measley— down as low as 30, roll number 228.