NORMANBY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2488, 26 July 1893, Page 2

NORMANBY.

nJ** 0 * OU * OWH 00RBMWITDK»4 Tha Government bas again dauUred the 4th of August next a pohlle Bo!id»y for the purpose of tree planting, and all oeal bodies have received circulars 4o that effect. La 8 t year the Waihi eemetary was planted, and tbii year many of tba residents of Normanby are nnxiona to have the recreation ground ornamented with trees, and with that view Mr P. J. Gane bas promised fifty trees, and Mr F. Williamson a similar number. The question of tba exehanga ol tha Recreation Ground for a portion of Mr Brett's property still bangs fin, and m* the majority of the Tow* Board, I bear, ata against the exchange, and aa tbe lease baa run out this opportunity should not ba thrown away, and steps should at ooea b« taken to have the grounds planted. Tha amount now standing to tbe ertdft of tW Domain Board is £84 12a lid, wfciafe would go a long way in fending. - '. or.i I am infonted the Gbmmfetiopfclfti intend raising tbe railway Tn'ii iiTuftliaa before doing up tbe platform.' T&amff be a great improvement, and if tbn onljr pat a verandah would be a' graat ecu* venienoe to the public. Although Normanby does not aftpca* to go ahead much it still keeps gotosT-M*' several properties have ohannd teadr lately. Mr J. Wilson bas Dunhaaad.rChft proparty known as " LodjiojMon," .and ' is removing a portion of tha buiWiofl frem there to tbe corner next tho Jmpmi^' Hotel, where he is having it arseUd for an office.

The natives are to bo paid tbeir root*. on the 28th inst., bo we may expwt t large number in Normanby on that dttt. Measles are going the roundi, »od Ilia - attendance at sohool is therefore ■mall. The transfer of the Imperial Hotel to Mr Bowa having fallen through, "Me Gwynoe atill holds the licenn, but I baa* of another person being in negotiation lor it.