POMAHAKA DOWNS.
November 24. — Wonderful to relate, fo-day has been a real summer day— the first tne this season. We may get one cr two more before the year is out, especially as the Dunedin show is near at hand. I have noticed in past years that the weather has taken a great turn for the better just when the Dunedin show takes place. I don't know whether Mr Pauhn is a great friend of the secretary or not, but such is the case.
Crops. — In many places the black soil harrowed and rolled indicates where oat 3 have been sown, but otherwise there is not much show. Certainly even this "day has helped to put a greener appearance on the country, and should some nice warm weather follow, the crops will come away like magic. In a few days settlers will be getting their turnips sown. I understand Mr Herriotfc 13 willing to let out his drill for sowing turnips tc anyone who wishes it, although his son, who went with it last year, is this season going round with his draught stallion Tyneholme. Coal. — Mr Forno- is still busy at the lignite reserve. He has had some serious slips of earth, which have greatly delayed him, but the chief drawback is the fire. Now that he 15s opened out some of the face, smoke is coming from various places, and on somo occasions volumes of flame have appeared. It is a pity something can't be done to have tht fire put out. The river flows past the place, and I should think th*t a ram put in would raise a sufficiency of water. I understand the- Minister of Minei is coming tc see the place. Stock. — Sheep are doing about as well as can be expected, but grass is still very backward. Several foal have appeared on the scene, and the draught stallion Tyneholme is travelling this district. 1 was sorry to hear that Mr James Mitchell lost a valuable brood mare at foaling time, as well as the foal. That Bridge.— Settler have been trying for months to -ford the river, but it has been too high. It is a- great drawback having no bridge. Certainly an amount has stood on the Estimates for this bridge for several years-, but thai is tho extent to which it has got. Surely so-jje arrangement will be come to whereby we can get it built. The sile was the drawback at one time, bwt I think tho County Council is to blame for not starting it.
POMAHAKA DOWNS.
Otago Witness, Issue 2541, 26 November 1902, Page 31
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