POHERUA ESTATE NOTES.
Quite a record in vegetable growing was attained at Pohorua Estate by Mr. J, J. Kelly, who dug live potatoes (Early
Vermont) which, when weighed, proved to bo lolbs. This proves the veracity as to the richness of the soil on this estate. The same settler also killed a sheep (one of his own rearing) which weighed 12Glbs. Considering the season has not been a good one, in many places as well as here, this is, indeed, a worthy record.
If the convenience of the settlers was studied as it should be in reference to 'roads and traffic, vegetables and other produce could bo sent to town with hut little cost and sold at a much lower rate than is now done. As it is, when produce has to be carted seven miles, when it might 1)0 done in a little over half the distance, it would not pay the settlors to do so. We trust that these inconveniences will be brought before public notice and very soon remedied. There is some talk of a sawmill starting on the Bell Hill road at the suspension bridge across the Crooked River. This bridge is about a mile from the settlement, and, if this should ho the case, it would open up the settlement a great deal more.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 March 1901, Page 4
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