POHANGINA NOTES.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 282, 6 December 1907, Page 7

POHANGINA NOTES.

(Own Correspondent).

When you reported the Pohangina County Council annual meeting you stated that Mr Brown had been reelected to *he chair, but you did not explain the general satisfaction which is felt by the residents of this county iu ..knowing that so trusty and firm a hand is at tho helm of our county affairs. The hope is general that he may long be spared in health and strength to do us the same yeoman service that he has so freely given in the past. In thanking the Council for the proof of their confidence and respect, he eulogised the staff, who, by their exertions, had carried on the arduous work of the district in a manner at once felicifeons in its results and highly creditable to themselves. The Council so fully recognised the justice of these remarks that it took the practical step of expressing it by granting an increase of salray to their most obliging Clerk, and an extra allowance to their far-travel-ling engineer.

To-day your correspondent has been in Palmerston, and was shown an excellent invention, with which nothing, so far, has been done commercially. This revived an idea that Your Own has long held—that there ie a great opening for the inception of a company under competent management to exploit inventions. It is well known that inventors, as a rule, are utter impossibilities as business men, and there is no doubt that if a company, working on business lines, were formed to give shape and substance to ideas often highly valuable but in a crude state, and to place them on the market and efficiently advertise them, it would not only benefit the* inventors and the company but the general public also by placing many a good thing within their reach which is now only a good idea still-born. During my journey from Pohangina to Palmerston I could not but notice the splendid appearance*of, the country all along the line, but one paddock of rye and clover, belonging, I believe, to Mr McCleary, gives promise of the finest hay crop it has ever been my fortune to see.