PAHAOA NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9736, 25 July 1910, Page 5

PAHAOA NOTES.

(Special to Daily Times.)

The local store was "sold out" of cough remedies the other day—a fact that speaks for itself. There lias been quite an exodus of youne "sports" from here lately. The Wellington races concluded, we expect to see the usual percentage return wiser and poorer men. It seems straugo that although roads and bridle tracks are formed for a ' good distance into the back country, they are scarcely passable for pedestrians during rainy weather. The creeks rise in wet weather, and where they intersect the roads travellers have to cross on fences or floodgates. A traveller was recently making his way over the Kaikuri cioek by unedium of a floodgate, when the structure collapsed and he was immersed to his neck. He had eighteen miles to cycle to Martinborough, in his wet clothes, just as darkness was setting in, and his opinions of the local authorities who neglect to put foot-bridges over their streams must have been worth hearing. A good deal of scrub-cutting and bush-felling is in progress along the river. Three contractors, Messrs Donovan, Anderson and Eurlong, have close on a hundred men employed. These contracts are nearly finished, but I hear that Mr Cameron, of Moeraki, has let a large block, work on which commences on August Ist. I understand also that auotner block is to be taken in hand on Mr A. McLeod's Kaikuri property. It is stated that private negotiations are in progress for the acquisition of a property of considerable area in the vicinity of Lougbush.

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