Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 41, 17 August 1893, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

Spring is coming — the weeping •willows are bursting into leaf, gooseberry bushes also ; paddocks are looking much greener this month. Stock as a rule have wintered very well — undulated farms ours are. I hear that in level places like Kairanga or Awahuri sheep have not done well. The Wharite Block is about to be surveyed, MrWyld ofPalmerstonisthe surveyor. The land, 3000 acres, was offered in a lump, but only half was taken up, the portion not selected is at the top of the hill, a trifle over 3000 feet high. This portion was once proclaimed a Forest Reserve, for ever and ever ; but the laws of the modern Medes and Persians do change. The HonMr Bowen, however, is of opinion " that the Forest Reserves in Wellington proyince, which were sought to be alienated by Government should not be withdrawn.', " 'Tis a wet world my masters," that we have come into. A faying that is probably in the mouths of the young lambs that are endeavouring to look happy, as they jump from isfand to island in the paddocks. Mr James Vile, of Cheltenham, has taken a section in the Wanganui Harbour Board Small Farm Association ; and Mr Knight, of Awahuri, and a party of eight have the contract to fell the whole of the bush on the section, some 228 acres, measured as the crow flies ; they have about 70 acres down already. Being a Feilding party, they are good men there, and will doubtless show our people here a wrinkle or two. The Spur Road School Committee plume themselves on the excellent attendance at their school. The roll number is 24, they nearly all attend regularly. Sheep have wintered very well in the Spur Road district. On undulating land sheep can always lay dry, no matter how wet the weather is, and besides that, the land around there seems to be suitable to sheep grazing a<s they are generally very healthy. The Manchester Block is justly celebrated throughout New Zealand, and may be the world, as being the best roaded piece of country in the colony ; but, as in the Darwinian theory, there is a missing link— our missing link is the connecting road between Ulysses (Todd's) and Spur Roads, rejoicing in the name of Watershed, although the travellers on it do not, in its present unmetalled slippery state of mud and slips, think so. The next time our Warden passes, he might carefully consider the way, and see what can be done.