GLENOMARU.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1032, 4 May 1894, Page 5

GLENOMARU.

-J. Tfrom our own correspondent.] Threshing is nearly finished ; yield fair but prices Very low and very discouraging to the farmers. • I notice, however, that there is a good demand for young stock. Turnips as a general rule are very good, especially where lime and other manures have heen used. The potato crop has been very fair. I know one settler who got 3501b5, the produce of 61bs of Imperator seed received from the Government. They were planted in an old onion bed. Some of them were about 31bs in weight, and there are no small ones amongst them. The two sawmills in the Glen are very busy — Mr Greig's and Messrs Marshall and Son'*s. Messrs Latta Bros, and Co. are very busy afc Hunt's road railway station, or rather I should say where the station is to be when the line is finished, but it will take 40 men a long time to finish it. I am told one gang whose cutting is through got notice that their services are to be dispensed with on the railway, so that does not, look as if the railway were to be pushed ahead. Mr Farnie was out last week and took on a lot more men, but I understand they are to be put on the roads. It is to be hoped some of them will be put on the village settlement road in Glenomaru on block 11, as those settlers are still under obligations to the neighbouring farmers for access to their homes. Also if something is not done to Hunt's road (or the sludge channel) from the main road to the railway camp the settlers at Katea and the enterprising firm of Latta Bros, and Co. will have to make boats to haul their goods through the mud. It is a pity if the sawmill will have to stop work through the bad state of the roads. Should this be the result Mr Farnie will have more names added to his list of unemployed. There are only three railway cuttings now unfinished ', and if men -svere employed in them all three months would finish the formation to Hunt's road. At the meeting of householders at Katea for the election of their first school committee the following gentlemen were elected : — Messrs Esson, Chapman, Harrington, Ord, and another gentleman whose name I forget ; five being the number required. May 1, 1894.