PAHIATUA.
(From Our Own Correspondent), j Fkoji various causes the building trade is reviving here.. .For the past tlirco or four months tho'roills have been principally occupied in cutting ."■•' and preparing timber for the erection/,,, ot houses on the Village SettlementfJ' some of which am of a superior class for village settlers. Holders of village settlement sections are not bound to erect a building of greater value than £3O to receive JB2O from the Governuient, whereas I should say that several ~ of the erections have cost tho owners from LSO to Ll5O to eroct, and now - the mills are principally employed in ; suiting timber, for several buildings within the town comprising a shop and residence for Mr Kidd, our localchemist ; a large Public Hall - for Mr W. Stewart, a couple of shops for Mr McCardle, and a residence for, ' MrGreville.
Bushfalling is not yet in full swing although I know at the present time Some seven or eight hundred aores are being felled around the district, The Pahiatua Eoad Board is also,on behalf;.,; of the Pahiatua-Puketoi or Kaitawa . Special Settlement, fallingabout sevenmiles of road in that settlement by der. v ferred, payment/thirds.. A pity it ia that the other associations (some of which are older than the above) wbtM :;S
not at once see and get their mouibcrs put on tbo rate roll, and mako a dotnaud for the expenditure of their deferred thirds. I imagine (and I think lam correct) that somo .five or six-kindred pounds of ABSoi)iiition deferred thirds are at the present moment lying in the Treasury awaiting application lor expenditure, and there they will Ho until the various members through their secretaries place ihenißclvcß on the ratepayers' roll of the local body. A valuable Maori houso was burnt down on Tuesday morning last at Ngnwapurtia. The house must have cosfroniu £2OO or more to erect, and was, I understand, lull of hay cr straw. There does not yet appear to bo any cluo to (he origin of the lire,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2947, 11 July 1888, Page 2
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333PAHIATUA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2947, 11 July 1888, Page 2
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