COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 61, 14 March 1910, Page 5

COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

[own correspondents.]

MAKOTUKU.

A tennis match, was to have been played, at Takapau on Saturday between the local club and the dub of that township, but at the last minute it was found necessary to postpone the match for a week or so.

NORSEWOOD

The annual services in connection with the harvest festival thanksgiving were held in t'he Methodist Church yesterday. Crowded 1 congregations attended both the morning and evening services. In the morning the Rev. J. M'Caw occupied the pulpit, and for his sermon took paa't of verse 5, oliap. 19 of Exodus, "Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." In the evening the Rev. J. Richards took the service and preached his sermon from the 56t'li Psalm, 11th verse, "Thou crowinest the year with thy goodness." The church was very prettily and appropriately decorated with flowers, fruit of all kinds, and vegetables. Appropriate anthems, to the occasion were sung by <a full choir, Mrs Parsons presiding at the organ. This morning a start was made with a new building in the upper township, Mr Otto Svensen, who some time ago bought Mr H. Brieske's shop and section opposite Mr T. H. Barclay's blacksmith shop, (having made a, start with an addition to the present shop in the shape of a billiard room. The old shop will, I 'understand,, be used as a hairdressimg and tobacconist's establishment, with the billiard room adjoining. Mr Bates is in charge of the work.