Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

[from our own correspondent "• Mr Palmer is having timber delivered for the erection of a new store to be placed on the corner section at the junction of the Valley and Pohangina roads, a section recently bought from Mr E. Hopkins. Mr Conway, on the Spur toad, has the frame of bis new house up, opposite Mr Ryan'a. Ritnmer and Craven, of Ashurst are building it. Mr J. Maunder is putting up a building for Mr Ted Akers at the rear of the Awahou (Foxton) Block. After having finished that, he will go across to the Wharite Block and put up a substantial house for Mr Hopkirk. Messrs Haynes have built the first sawn-timber house on the Salisbury Block. They cut the timber themselves, and also made and burnt the bricks for the chimney ,}|The Currie Bros, have also two good split-timber houses on the same Block. On one section they have 100 acres of good grass— stocked with sheep, which they drove there through a bush track. Having seasoned off the whole of the cheese made at the Victoria Factory this year, the manager left the other day for Dunedin, and will return by the end of August to commence for another season. News horn Cambridge, Waikato, states that Mr Claude Francis, lately a resident on the Pohangina road, who left here in very poor health, has apparently quite recovered, the Waikato air proving a real invigorator. The Trustees of the Recreation Reserve have spent a lot of time aud money on it lately, iv levelling and then sowing with good grass. The Pohangina Mill is cutting a bridge order for the Ohau, of 50,000 feet of timber. A load of desks for the Pohangina School went up a day or two ago. The scholars appreciate the thoughtful action of the Board in giving them their instruction in the township, instead of wading through the mud of the Pohangina road to get to the lower school. A clump of tall, straight, whitepine trees, just above Mr Retemeyer's, have been gradually bowing their crested heads to the iufluence of the river, and have now all toppled over and disappeared. They kept the river from encroaching on Mr Retemeyer's. The river has changed its course. The bridge meeting on Saturday next, at Corpes Woolshed, is likely to be well attended. A very keen interest is taken in it, but so much depends on the weather. The river is always more or less discolored and swollen now. Captain Prpece had the honor of holding the first auction sale in our town. And the driver of the load of fruit treus he was to sell had the honor of sitting down iv our own Pohaugina mud, A sudden lurch of his cart deposited him there, but, like other deposits in these hard times, he is now withdrawn. Quite a posse of carpenters leave our district on Monday mornings for Mr Johnson's new building near Cheltenham. The lath and plastering contract is being carried out by Wellington men. Rimmer and Craven aro the builders. We are sorry to hear that our County Bill is hanging fire. Perhaps our young recruit is not yet quite up to his drill, and put the shot in first.