Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 143, 13 December 1894, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

[From Our Own Correspondent.] We had a very heavy thunderstorm here on Saturday, accompanied by heavy rain, which did much good to the crops. Fruit trees, on the whole, are looking very well, considering all things, and the crop of apples promises to bo fair, but gooseberries are very backward. Our little Palmers township is looking up just now, the hotel and two shops making a vast improvement. The improvements in the way of stables for tbe hotel are very creditable to the enterprise of the proprietor, and convenient for the great number of travellers who visit the district. The posts are all ready for the new sale yards, and they will be on the ground in a few days. About 850 pounds of cream are sent daily from here to the Palmerston North factory, which is low considering this is such a splendid grass country. A great number of trout are to be seen in the Pohangina river. A lot of bush will be burned here this season. It seems a pity so much valuable timber should be wasted. I hear that the Pohangina School is to be shifted during the Christmas holidays, but somo of the settlers here do not approve of the action in this respect of the Education Board, as there are numbers of children who will thereby be unable to attend. By-and-by we will havo to apply for another building as settlement progresses. If the school had been shifted two miles nearer to Ashurst it would have been convenient for a lot of children living on the byroads.