Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 29, 3 August 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

[FROM OUB OWN COBBESrQKDMRT.J 1* grippe is very prevalent -ra'ihis locality, quite a number of people are confined to their beds, the atfatok in some instances beingveiyewero.. . • The Pohangina 1 school is to be. open tinea days a week, and tfai school also 3 days, a week.; Tjua,wiU come very hard on the school teacher, as the roads between the two schools are iv a very bad state. However, he is a persevering 1 man,, and although often sticking in the mud he still andeavours to stick to his duty. Settlers are looking forward to the roads being properly attended toilurin? the summer months, as another winter with roads like we have at pra* sent would be unbearable. Many people travel the river bed in prefer* ence to the road. Fruit trees seem very forward this season, as several varieties of trees ar« already in blossom. . v 1 The settlers are making great preparations for the opening of the creamery here. It is stated that operations will be oommence4 about the of this month. . - The lambing season has already commenced here, .and,: farmer* ]are looking forward to good percentages. The ewes however, do not look so well this winter as last. ; Our publican is making great^alterations to hia hotel, and is now making an addition of three^nts Htblthe building. This certainly 100& f as if we are goinur nh»ad '