Pemberton Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 45, 22 August 1893, Page 2

Pemberton Notes

«. [from oub own cobbespondent.] Mr Le Frou, the well known blacksmith of Birmingham, now favours Pembertou with regular visits for the purpose of attending to the wants of the settlers in the horse-shoeing line. Mr Le Prou's enterprise in this direction is certainly to be commended, as those requiring horses shod will now be saved the inconvenience ot having to journey many miles to secure the services of a farrier. Owing to the continuous bad weather, and the want of money by the Road Board, the road between Birmingham and Rangiwahia is getting in a state beyond tho imagination of those good citizens who are employed in settlements or towns and consequently hare good roads. It is a wonder there hasn't been some serious accident through the deep bog holes in the sea of mud, which is, for mi'e'f as much as two feet deep On Friday morning last a cart got stuck in one of these holes, a short distance beyond Birmingham, and had to be dug out. The soil being loose, slips have to be contended with, and in several places thousands of tons of earth have sub* sided and the whole road has suuk from a foot to eighteen inches. In such places the roads will probably some day be found in the bottoms of the gullies. With all these drawbacks the mail contractor between tho places mentioned, Mr S. Daw, has regularly taken the mails through, and is deserving of the settlers' support for his pluck and energy in keeping up communication. The amount of money required to put the road iv order will bo almost as much as the first cost of formation, and the sooner tho settlers iv tho Pemberton Block get separation, or the Kiwitea Koad Board is afforded increased borrowing powers, the better it will be for those who live in the block, and beyond it. The Pemberton people propose building a Hall on the reserve in the Rangiwatiia township. The funds required will be raised by aubscription, and several amounts have already been promised. Two of the men from the Wairnki State Fnrin went to Wellington on Saturday to meet their wives and families whom they are goiug to take up to the settlement.