Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

[FKOM <>UR OWX CORRESPONDENT.] We have had more freshets withiu a short period than auy year within the memory of settlers. Fifteen years ago the Pohangiua Valley was just being opened up for settlement. An old colonial, speaking of the fine river-bed flats there were then, said that as 6oonas the bush was felled in anything like large areas on the slopes of the Ruahiues thore would be more high floods than at the time at which he was speaking. Every winter proves the correctness of his observation. The storm water now runs off the surface quite quietly, and so makes many freshets — which, however, for the like reason, koou fall again. Formerly the bush held the water back, and gave it out gradually. Bushfelling has commenced on the Pohangiua Farm Homestead Association. I hear there are some splendid sections fronting the Table Flat road. The upper portion of the Onslow Block is reported to be too rough for 200-acre sections. There are some good sections ou the lower end, where it joins the Marton Association land. The Yen. Archdeacon Towgood, of Marton, is expected in Ashurst on Thurs. day. A daughter of one of his old parishioners at Marton is to be married to Mr D. Henderson. The good wishes of their friends will, I feel sure, go with them. River-bed travellers say tho bed is very little altered above the junction of Pohangina with Coal Creek. Messrs Adsett and Sons are supplying an order for 50,000 feet of heart of totara for a bridge across the Ohau. They have been very much hindered in the work by their {.racqway an/i bridges being washed away, put repairs haye since been made, Some of the settlers on the back roads are sawing their own timber by hand. It is much cheaper than carting from a sawmill and sledging afterwards. ftfr Frank Owen seems to be the surveyor who is mostly employed by the Manchester Block settlers to peg off any alterations. He has been engaged at Ashurst lately.