POMAHAKA.
Mr P. R. Flatman, M.H.R., who has just returned from a visit to Poinahaka, supplies the Temuka Leader with some interesting particulars of the settlement. Mr Flatman drove all over the estate, and crossed several paddocks, which had splendid crops of oats, turnips, and ryeigrass. The thresher was at work on the ryegrass when Mr Flatman was there, and, judging by the straw and the aftermath, he considered that there was at least from 50 to 60 bushels of seed. Many of the oat crops he also considers should go 40 bushels to the acre. Turnips that were put in by the Government are looking extremely well, and, in fact, the best crops in the district this year are at Pomahaka. The only thing the settlers want now is a fine month of harvest weather, as the oats are not yet ripe. Mr Flatman considers that the Pomahaka settlement is quite equal to any district in the country, and that people who take up the laud at the rents charged by the ■ Government should live very comfortably.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6130, 17 March 1898, Page 3
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