CORRESPONDENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7379, 4 February 1902, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

HE BEAUTIFYING SOCIETY.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,—" Better late than never." I am glad to see that someone has taken up the idea of " beautifying Hawera." " Civis " suggests several things which could be acted upon, but you -want some really useful and energetic people on the Committee. I feel certain, now, if the idea is kept well before the public, that they will see the benefits that | will accrue to' the town by beautifying the place. The member for the district voted against receiving the extra £60 allowed by Goverment, and, no doubt, he did this in his scrupulous honesty, and I would suggest that he be asked to give that £60 as a nucleus of a fund to be used for the purpose mentioned, and out of courtesy tbe committee may be asked to call one of the avenues of the suggested plantations, "McGuire Avenue." There is another ihing that, suggests itself to my mind, and that is, that the head schoolmaster be asked toget the children each to bring onetree, and that the Council undertake the planting and tending of them. In one place I saw on one of the battens around to protect the tree, " Proteot your own property ;" this was done; with stencil plates. I only hope that more like " Civis " will take an interest in this very important matter.— l am, etc., A. J. Whittakbr.

The kauri timber growing ia the north is estimated at 259,000,000 feet, and as the conversion is about 70,000,000 feet per annum, the supply will be exhausted in about eighteen years. The kahikatea (white pine) and rimu (red pine) forests in three islands are extensive enough to sustain a much greater rate of nonversion for future generations. In Weßtland alone, it is estimated there are forests which will produce 12,000,000 feet per annum for 500 years.

Apparently the telegraph is not on • occasion the speedy transmitter ot messages thai it was once thought to be. On Saturday last a Wanganui resident, who was on business in Hawera, wired at 9.30 to his wife that he was coming home by the express train. •He duly arrived home, and after dinner answered a knook at the front door, and received the telegram handed in I some four or five hours previously, Chromole. TENNIS GOODS I TENNIS GOODS 1 F. J. Wwctley has now landed the new season stock of Termi B Raokets, Balls, Nets, Poles, Markers, etc. Raokets by blazenger and Forrester from 10s to 30s all weights. Slazenger's Balls, Nets, and Poles. Inspection invited. — Advt. BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN Durirg the summer months children ate subjeot to disorder of the bowels, and should receive the most careiol attention. Ab soon as any looseness of the bowelg is notioed, Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea .Remedy should be given. When children are teething they have more or less diarrhoea which can be controlled by giving Chamberlain's Cholio. Cholera and Diarrhcea Remedy. I*s directions with each bottle. For sale a* Hawera General Store.— Advt. Mr Spence, of the Economic, will comfl mence hlBh l 8 half-yearly sale on Thursday 180 i inst, continuing it for om month* His London buyer advises a large AkA ment on the way, to make room for wbiS JSKSK? arfiWM m be •**»