Pohangma Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 2

Pohangma Notes

Many of our electors do not half like the idea of being severed from our parent town of Feilding and tacked on to the Palmerston electorate. We used to feel that we could turn the scale on election day and in fact wo were always reckoned upon as a reliable quantity iv the good old cause. Our old colours will be found nailed to the wast just the same. Mr Reteuieyer has had some sheepworrying dogs on his place, they have also visited Mr Akers' farm, killing about twenty. Mr Harvey, late of the Ivy Covered House, near the Penelope road, has one of the most valuable sections in the Harbor Board Association — splendid lot of totara — which 1 believe is the same as gold. It is rumored that the Wesleyans intend to erect a church at Pohangina. The air of tne Manchester Block is evidently conducive to inventor genius — botli Feilding and Ashurst have produced one. Feilding has its Belk, Ashurst its Claphaui. I am told that never since Ashurst was a town has there been such a bad time for working men and so much lost time every month, indeed every week—firstfrom the bad weather, others from sick,

ness — thnt barely enough is earned to keep the wolf from the door — an argument for reducing customs duties on the necessaries of life. In consequence of the boisterous evening there was on the occasion of the meeting to form the Farmers' Club, only some 15 or 16 fanners were able to attend, it was therefore postponed to Saturday August 19th.