Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 312, 12 May 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

[from: ouk own cohbespondbnt.J I am informed that Mr Earle will won finish the survey of the Onslow Block, which is the only one of the Pohangina Valley Farm Homestead Association not yet drawn for. This Association was formed at a public meeting held in the Oolyton Hall on January 16th, 1892. In consequence of unavoidable circumstances it has hung fire for a long time. The freatest hindrance was, that it could not c commenced till the Marton Blocks were surveyed because the. roads lead out in that direction — another hindrance was that Mr Earle, the surveyor, was instructed by the Survey Department to put in the pegs of the Mangoire Coal Creek Block in consequence of Mr Laire (another Government surveyor) being engaged in the Salisbury Farm Homestead Association. The main road through the country which we call ApitUNorsewood* it being so named on the maps, receives the name of Ashurst-Norsewood road at the other end. •■.'•' The Labor Bureau is opening two miles and a half of the Apiti- Norsewood road at the Pohangina river end— this oonpled with the three and a half miles made by the same department from the Apiti end, is a splendid beginning for the Small Farm settlers. In fact, the Government has commenced to do their part before a great many of the settlers have started on theirs by busbfelling— so that it will be a great help this coming winter while pack* ing in their stores. The three and a half miles of, road forming from the main 'Apiti metalled road runs through the Mangoire Coal Creek Block to the edge of Coal Creek where the Hopopeto creek empties itself from the Salisbury land. This road liae is felled one chain wide, cleared sixteen feet wide, and formed and bridged eight feet wide, so that a dray can be brought to the commencement of the Salisbury sections The potatoe crop is about all lifted now. The result is a short crop, even on rich soil, and a very large percentage of small ones, Palmerston and ■ Longburn, both potatoe' growing districts, report the same —light crop, some large potatoes, very few medium size, great proportion small.