PLEASANT POINT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14363, 8 February 1911, Page 7

PLEASANT POINT.

(From Our Own Correspondent), ■ For years past Totara Valley and Pleasant Point people have had difficulty in crossing i£erslako creek in tune of floods, not so much with heavy traffic as with light vehicles and motor cars. Towards the latter end o? this week this difficulty will be overcome as the Levels County Council v has widened the stock bridge to carry light traffic, and the Point teams are busy putting in protection fences to keep the water under the bridge. At a meeting of the Pleasant Point D.H.S. Committee held on Monday evening an unanimous vote of thanks was passed to the headmaster and staff of the school, and congratulations t» the pupils for their success at the recent examinations. The weather unfortunately has not been too good for harvest operations of late, although the recent rains have dene a lot of good to green crops and sheep feed generally. •' Potato crops around Pleasant Point are above the average of other seasons. Some particularly fine fields can be sefen on Mr Alex. Agnew's form, where Mr John Crawford has e first-rate crop of Up-to-Dates. During recent years Pleasant Point caii claim to have the most tip-to-date sale in South Canterbury for the convenience of buyers, vendors and the yarding of stock, but since the opening of the Rose will, Papaka and 1-iuapaka Settlements the fact is placed beyond doubt, as the Saleyards Company have added extensively to their yards. Some time ago a company was started at the Cave and the general opinion was that it would do a lot of harm to Pleasant Point, but i* does not seem to have done so. 2 ho cattle pens also h-ve been till overhauled and a decking has been tuilt around the yards so that vendors and buyers can have a good view of the stock Other improvements in the township are seen in twelve new houses that have been built since the Town District* severed its connection with the Levels County Council. Whether the new government can claim any credit- for the recent improvements is rr.nro than one ran say. At any rate thev are a. matter on which one can congratulate the Board. Taking the townshir> and district together, they never looked "better tljnn at the present time, and all interested in their welfare wore pleased to sea in tho daily Press of February 3rd tho remark oP Megsr* DnnTop Keith, visitors from Scotland, that "tnfl '

Plonsant Point Uidtrieb wa» tlio. mart frvourcd locality tliev hud visited. Although owing to the dry weather tho crops wei'o not quite up to tho average, tlio pastures, were looking veil, and tho turnips and rape crops were very forward."