COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 20, 25 January 1911, Page 5

COUNTRY CORRESPONDENCE.

[OWN oobsespondent.] WEBER. W ebe.r scored three wins on Saturday—tin'st t'lie G'U.ll Club beat Manga tm nn -at Weber by stix points; .a. tennis teaun played! at Herbert villo and defeated that club iby 9 to 5 ; iim t.'lii© evening Waione find Weber played a. crib match, 10 a-side, in the Public Library, at Weber, and after a close game Weber's luc<k was a/gain, in, winning by 5 games. If the Cricket Club wishes to keep our good name up, they .meed get to piraatice at once, in view, of thei'i' match with Pomgairo'a at Weber on February 11. Bishop Averill will preach >a-t Weber on Sunday next, 11 a.m.

NORSEWOOD. Mr P. Stoekke (son of the late Mir Stoekke, a. well-known settler of the district) lias commenced: business as a. bootm.akea-<and repairer in the pa'<emk'cs immediately -adjacent to tine Public Hiall, where lie will be pleased to receive the support of tlie residents generally. Mr Stoekke bias had considerable experience in the bootmalving business, having (acquired a good km oav lodge of tlie trade with an okl Taraiia.kii. firm of bootmakers a Hid irep'aikers. A special feature of the business is the repairing department, the low prices, combined" with good wo'rkmanship, being primary con si derations. Measures of a,l'l kinds will be made on the piremistes. I wish Mr Stoekke every success an his new venture.

MAKOTUKU. Tlie sidings at Te Ohu and Mangatewainui liave now been taken up. At the latter place the work of demolishing the old wooden bridge and the construction of the work in connection witli the new iron viaduct is now quite completed.