PAHAU, EAST COAST.
(Prom our own Correspondent.)
Feathersion is generally credited with taking the palm as being the most windy spot in the Wairarapa, and certainly when it blows with such fovce as to upset a goods wagon weighing with freight about eight tons, it would hardly be supposed to have any rival to the distinction it has acquired, I think, however, that the Lower Pah.au may fairly olaim second place, for, during the week in which the train was blown over, the wind out here blew down a wool-store, owned by Mr W, Cameron, the sizo of which was 38ft x 18ft, and carried the wholo of its roof out to sea, .over 200 yards distant, The sides'were broken'into fragments, and even the floor with its timber was broken into several pieces. Another shed on the same coast, .the property of Mr J. Cameron, of Opaki, was also blown down, although not with so much damage as that of Mr W Cameron.
I nolico they are trying to introduco a disease to inoculate the rabbits, for their total extermination, That probably may be necessary in some countries, but certainly tho ordinary method adopted, viz., poisoning, shooting, and destruction bv ferretts, has proved most effecaoious in this district. It is almost inorediblo co witness the wonderful change that has taken place withiu the last few years on stations, starting from Maryborough all the way to the East Coast. Having boon a frequent traveller on the route mentioned, I can speak from personal experience. A few years ago, a neighboring station then exported several hundred . thousand skins, | and there there appeared to be quite as many rabbits left, which anyone with a stockwhip might easily cut down as they rode along, and at that lime hardly any grass wa3 to be seeu, and the sheep looked like skins- hung out on a wire fence. On the same statjon this year one might ride the whole, extent of it, over 12 miles, without seeing a bunny, and on a large extent of n,the grass m so plentiful that tiie
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2822, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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347PAHAU, EAST COAST. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2822, 14 February 1888, Page 2
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