Pohangina Notes

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 73, 23 September 1893, Page 2

Pohangina Notes

♦ ... [from oub owjc cobbbspondent.J The Victoria cheese factory is approaching completion. Being "the first in our Valley, it attracts a considerable amount of attention. The littlo puffingbilly of one horse power, which is fed by steam from the sawmill engine, is a great source of amusement to the younger portion of the community. Its diminutire wheels revoke at the rate of nineteen to the dozen, and it is necessary to regulate the driving, for if driven direct from the mill engine it would be either too fast or too slow. The lirst load of timber for the Poliangina creamery was brought on the ground to-day. Sir Cullen, who bought the best corner section in our township, in about to build a good sized store. The Pohangiua Road Board offices are about to be erected, but they will hardly be ready for the next Board meeting. Messrs Adsott and Son expect to get up steam — in their engines I mean — next Monday. They have been most expeditious in moving and re«erecting their new mill plant. As they will be cutting sound, green timber, it is expected there will be a creat demand for it. Already several orders are waiting. The Commissioner of Lands will attend at the Theatre Boyal, Ashurst, on October 3rd, to superintend the drawing o£ the sections in the Umutoi Farm Homestead Association. In my last notes I mentioned the 10th October as the day, but that was incorrect. The Marton Small Farm Blocks are tobe drawn for in a few days. The surveying of the Onslow Block could not he gone on with very rapidly tilt the Marton Blocks were surveyed, as the outlet is the same. The Onslow Block will be but a short distance from the metalled road by Pemberton. Pigeons have been very plentiful m these parls lately, but during the past few warm days they have returned to tho hills.