Pohangina Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 230, 29 March 1895, Page 2

Pohangina Notes.

Our district is sti'l keeping on the progressive track. Tbe number of new buildings erected here of late proves that it is flourishing. Two of our local stores are being added to to meet the demands of our trade. Messrs Harrison and Collisou bave had an addition made to their residence, Mr C. Taylor has built a hous" on Mr Pattison's section Coal Creek, | and Mr A. Richards has bad a sub- j stantial residence erected for himself, j I hear that more buildings are sill to be built before the winter sets in. Considerable dissatisfaction is generally expressed here concerning the r.-cent county valuations. In one c se, I am told that the valuator put something like £3 an acre on toa small section on Coal Creek without even troubling himself to look at it from a distance. '1 bis alleged excessive valuation is likely to he heard more ol shortly. We have not as yet boasted ot a second crop of fruit bere in one season, but I think this district is en titled to the cake in the grsss--eed line. On tlie 2nd of January last MrF Richards leaped a paddock oi Italian ryo, which yielded 30 bushels to the acre. He has now reaped the second crop off the same ground, which gave 17 bushels to the acre. Can nny of your Manawatu farms go one better 1 On a small patch adjoining this rye I was shown some onions grown that are worthy of a place in any show, being- ot good shape and solid, and five of them turning the scale at lSlbs 2oz 1 h.-y were the lirown Spanish ; tops off and dried in the sun when weighed. Such records as these speak well of our soil. The turnip crops will be a failure here this season, caused principally through being eaten off by the grasshoppers, which are to be seen by thousands on some of the late burns. —Standard.