FIFTY YEARS AGO

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14068, 15 February 1939, Page 2

FIFTY YEARS AGO

MATAI LOG IN RIVER. (From the “Pahiatua Star” ol February 15th, 1889). At the last meeting of the Road Board it was stated that the question of removing the matai log out of the Alangatainoka river was left to the Town Board. So far as we recollect the matter was brought under the notice of the Road Board in Alay of last, year by the Town Board, and the former body agreed to undertake the work, charging one-half the cost to the latter. Whether this is so or not should be easily ascertained from the minute book. FINE BED OF RHUBARB. Rhubarb is considered by most people a difficult thing to grow, and it is generally believed that until the plants are two or three years old they do not throw off any stalks worth gathering. Air G. Avery has proved this to be quite a mistake, for he has a large bed of the finest rhubarb we have ever seen, the plants being only twelve months old. He put in the seed himself, and during the spring transplanted the young plants into a bed prepared far them. The sight is now an extraordinary one; the plants look like trees. All the stalks arc fine, but some of them are out of the common, measuring seven inches round, the lea res being three feet broad. All* Avery says he understands the growth of rhubarb, and there is no doubt he does.