Pemberton Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 40, 16 August 1893, Page 2

Pemberton Notes.

« [r.Y OUR TRAVELLING COIIUESPORDDXT.] In consequence of the exceptionally wet weather we have experienced for some considerable time past, several of the roads are in a very bad state. The Wlmre road is at the present time in a disgraceful condition, and the sloppy slushy mud that prevails here, makes a ride in the dark anything but a pleasant experience. I understand that a Wanganui gentleman has purchased a section facing the Whare road, for the purpose of a hotel site. The situation is undoubtedly a good one, as a house in this locality would have the advantage of catching the traffic to and from Ohingaiti. We have had a few cases of measles, fortunately of a mild character. Measles being the rage just now, it was hardly to be expected that we should be exempt from the epidemic. Mr Martin Belski's large substantial boarding house is fast approaching completion. The building when finished will be a decided acquisition in every way. I hope to see Mr Belski's enterprise amply rewarded in the near future. Mr Mitchell, our popular boniface, contemplates adding a billiard room to his well appointed hotel, aho the erection of a large room for extra accommodation purposes. These contemplated improvements tend to show that Mr Mitchell is one of those energ«tic and enterprising men who are nothing if not up to date in all things where advancement is concerned. Time after time attention has been called to the number of decayed trees that are in such dangerously close proximity to the road. It is quite possibly that a valuable life or two may be lost in the future owing to this existing danger. Most of our sturdy settlers have their lives insured I believe, still it is not consoling to imagine the thought of a tree suddenly crashing down and smashing one into smithereens. When we do "hand in our checks," let there be' no novelty about it ; if we are going to do " a double shuffle oil' this mortal coil," let it be done in the good old orthodox style. Surely it is time the authorities compelled the removal of these trees overhanging the road, for while they remain as at present, a constant source of danger to the traveller will always present itself.