PAHIATUA NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3121, 23 February 1909, Page 6

PAHIATUA NEWS.

(From Our Resident Reporter). Monday. During the last fove years there "has been a wondasriul improvement in the back country of this distict, bat pcrfaups none more so than in the di3tftet along the banks of the Mangahao river from Ballance to Marima. At Makomako, Nikau and Mirama, the bush has all been felled, and in many cases a large area of the ground has been stumped and ploughed, and several splendid root crops are to be seen along the road. A number of sawmills have been working in the districts mentioned, and pit-sawn cottages and split slab whares are now a thing of the past, structures of beauty and convenience being erected in their stead. Every small township has its creamery, and to this fact many of the farmers largely owe their present prosperous condition. Travelling fuither on to Mangamaire, a great change is seen there, and only one of the old landmarks remain in the shape of a small house about half-a-mile from the station. The timber tor this house was years " a,'o trucked to Eketahuna from Master ton and taken from there to Man- ; gamaire by brake and sledge. This place was the general stopping place for store brakes, the road from there to Marima and Nikau only allowing „stores to be delivered by means of pack horses. A creamery, a branch of the Masterton Butter Factory, is erected near the station, and cream railed daily to Mastertcn, and the same is done from the Nikau Creamery. Bridges over the Mangatainoka and Mangahao rivei's have "been erected, and farmers who lave purchased farms in these districts are doing well. On the main road to Konini and Pahiatua great improvements are also to be seen. The settlers have not been trouhled very much with bad roads and bridgeless rivers. Every settler along the road has ground stumped and ploughed and this year good crops have been obtained. Two fine paddocks bf beans ar3 to be seen on the properties of Messrs J. and Thos. Avery. The latter has one of the finest dairy and agricultural farms in the Bush. Miss Ruby Esdaile, a member o£ Pollard's Opera Company, met with an accident at Pahiatua on Sunday "last. The members of the Company were the guests of Mr E. J. Hughesj and Miss Esdaile, who was on horseback, by some means fell off the horse. She was removed to Nurse Miller's private hospital, and attended by Dr. Dawson. It was found that Miss Esdaile was suffering from slight concussion of the brain; She is now doing as weJl as can be expected.